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Rev Mex Invest Psic 2015; 7 (2)

About human strengths and gender differences

Sánchez HÓ

Language: Spanish
References: 37
Page: 107-117
PDF size: 138.42 Kb.


ABSTRACT

In this paper I describe the strengths of the study of Ovejero and Cardenal (2015) emphasizing the importance and success of adding the analysis of the relationship between gender roles and human strengths with the consequent results and insights derived. The most interesting finding reported in the case of femininity is that there are positive relationships between this construct and human strengths, but in the case of masculinity, relationships are negative. The literature mentioned by the authors regarding gender differences in human strengths complemented with other studies is reviewed. New questions and lines of inquiry based on these first results on gender roles are proposed, some of them mentioned by the authors. The proposal of replication studies, given the novelty of the analysis of these variables, is pointed out as well as possible future practical applications.


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