Personality Styles: Predictors of Masculine Gender Role Conflict in Male Prison Inmates.

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between personality styles and gender role conflict. The participants consisted of 366 male inmates incarcerated in a medium-security prison in the southern United States. Eleven personality styles, as measured by the Millon Multiaxial Clinical Inventory-III (T. Millon, 1994), were used to predict the 4 factors of gender role conflict as measured by the Gender Role Conflict Scale (J. M. O'Neil, B. Helms, R. Gable, L. David, & L. Wrightsman, 1986). The results indicate that the aggressive, histrionic, narcissistic, and dependent personality style predicted specific gender role conflict factors. The implications for the effect of personality on gender role conflict are discussed.