Abstract
In this study, the relations of masculinity, femininity, and gender with various depressive experiences were examined in a sample of normal young men and women. The results indicated that greater masculinity generally was associated with lower levels of different depressive experiences in men and women. Greater femininity was related to advantageous outcomes for various depressive experiences in a relatively weaker and gender-specific fashion, but also was associated with greater anaclitic depression in men and women. The variable of gender alone was either weakly related or unrelated altogether to various depressive experiences. These results suggest that culturally defined gender-role characteristics may be more important than gender with respect to different aspects of depressive experiences in normal young adults.
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