Abstract
60 female college students from all four class years and from 14 different majors were given a personal data sheet asking for age, major, college year, and grade point average, and completion of a Bern Sex-role Inventory, and a Mach V Test. Scores of undergraduate female college students were not expected to correlate significantly with those on the Mach V Test and grade point averages, but, when the students were divided into traditionally masculine sex-typed and traditionally feminine sex-typed groups on the basis of the Bern scale, a significant positive correlation between Mach V scores and grade point averages for traditionally masculine sex-typed females and a significant negative correlation for traditionally feminine sex-typed females were expected. No significant over-all correlation between Mach V scores and grade point averages was found. However, the Pearson correlation of .61 between these two variables for the Bern inventory scored traditionally masculine sex-typed females was significantly positive and of —.64 for traditionally feminine sex-typed females was significantly negative. Suggestions for further research on Machiavellianism and particularly on different manipulations used by traditionally feminine sex-typed females were made.
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