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Separate factor analyses of the value rankings of 53 male and 77 female college students yielded three factors for each gender. Interpretation suggested “Creative Self-Determination versus Submissive Dependency,” “Personal Gratification versus Sociopolitical Consciousness,” and “Existential Responsibility versus Traditionalism” as core concepts for the female respondents; while males' axiological dimensions were labeled “Communal Idealism versus Entrepreneural Pragmatism,” “Hedonism versus Egalitarianism,” and “Sybaritic Bohemianism versus Traditional Sobriety.” Each pole of the female factors was interpreted as reflecting a major ideological referent component of the Women's Liberation Movement, while male factors were construed as constituting perspectives for interpreting varieties of response to feminist ideology. Techniques for increasing individuals' levels of self-actualization by direct intervention in axiological organization were discussed.
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Mahoney, J., Heretick, D.M.L. & Katz, G.M. Gender specificity in value structures. Sex Roles 5, 311–318 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287398
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