Research Paper
The International Journal of Indian Psychology
ISSN 2348-5396 (Online) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (Print)
Volume 9, Issue 2, April- June, 2021
DIP: 18.01.146.20210902, DOI: 10.25215/0902.146
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Psychological Androgyny and Sex-Type among Sudanese
Universities’ Students
Souad Mousa Ahmed Bakhet
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ABSTRACT
Aim: This study designed to investigate the sex type and androgynous individual among a
sample of Sudanese students by applying Bem’s sex role inventory (BSRI). This study
carried out in Sudan’s capital (Khartoum, Khartoum-North and Omdurman). Sex differences
in terms of many aspects, femininity, masculinity or sex gender, sex role identity, and sex
stereotype, the manner that each society shaped its individual. Methods: The investigator
applied the Bem’s sex role inventory on 240 sample of universities student s selected
systematic randomly from: Omdurman Islamic University, The Ahfad University for Women
and the Arts College of Khartoum University. The investigator attempts to apply the Bem’s
sex role inventory on those selected sample from the three Universities. Male-female (M-F)
scales were developed to measure masculine and femininity traits. Sandra Bem and others
(1975) criticized those scales or tests. Then she developed another scale for measuring sex
type individuals, androgynous individual has a wider range of capabilities. Results: The
results showed the existence of androgynous person. Near the half of the Islamic university
(45%), the Ahfad University for Women (28.8%), and more than half among Khartoum’s
students (66.7%) are androgynous. The majority of the females at Ahfad and Khartoum
students are sex-type in feminine direction; hence, male students are not extremely sex-type.
Conclusion: Bem sex role inventory can possess feminine and masculine traits equally, this
person or individual known as androgynous. In this study, the existence of androgynous
person is there. Near the half of the Islamic university (45%), the Ahfad University for
women (28.8%), and more than half among Khartoum’s students (66.7%) are androgynous.
The majority of the females in Ahfad and Khartoum students are sex-type in feminine
direction.
Keywords: Androgynous, Sex Typed, University Students.
ex gender (male and female), sex type (feminine and masculine), those two terms are
intensively studied by many researchers in various times and through different
perspectives. The sex type person, that is feminine or masculine, is restricted in doing
only those situations where the requirements are consistent with the person’s own sex type
characteristic (Bem, 1975). In her studies in New Genia, Margaret Mead concluded:
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School of psychology, Ahfad University Women, Omdurman, Sudan
*Corresponding Author
Received: May 09, 2021; Revision Received: May 24, 2021; Accepted: June 21, 2021
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