Abstract
The masculinity-femininity (M-F) dimension was assessed for 15 male paranoid schizophrenics and 15 passive-aggressives. It was hypothesized that the paranoid schizophrenics score in a feminine direction, obtain more feminine scores than the passive-aggressives, and that the latter obtain masculine scores on two M-F tests. These hypotheses were derived chiefly from psychoanalytical theory. Results indicated that there were no significant differences between the two groups on either test and that both groups were able to score in the masculine direction. Thus, the passive-aggressives scored in the predicted direction, but the paranoid schizophrenics did not. Alternate explanations which emphasize no disturbance for paranoid schizophrenics in the M-F dimension were proposed. The reality-orienting effects of drugs and heightened sensitivity were also considered.
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