Previous research on psychological androgyny has used either one-way analysis of variance or multiple regression to examine the impact of masculinity and femininity on behavior and attitudes. This paper describes a two-way analysis of variance procedure which permits a test for a potential interaction effect of masculinity and femininity. The utility of the procedure was demonstrated through an analysis of the effects of the masculinity and femininity factors of the Bem Sex-role Inventory on the expected family size of 264 college women.
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