Author: TURNER, BF
Abstract: No gender differences appeared in personality ratings of aggression/assertiveness when separate rating scales were used to rate extensive interview and test material on elderly women and men. Men were rated significantly lower in aggression on a scale created to rate women than on a scale created to rate men, and men tended to be rated as less aggressive than women on the female scale. For women, aggression was apparent in their accounts of current activities, while in men aggression was more often apparent in their renditions of past-life activities. Gender differences were most apparent in verbal aggression in interpersonal interactions. Findings are consistent with the possibility of age-related decline in aggression in men.
Source: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY-RESEARCH & REVIEWS
Publication Year: 1992
Volume: 11
Issue nr: 2
Pages: 122 - 127