Cross-national studies suggest that people are happier in feminine nations that are also economically affluent. The first objective of the present study was to replicate this finding with a quality of life index which is more comprehensive than the usual measures of subjective well-being. This comprehensive indicator termed Happy Life-Expectancy (HLE) combines subjective happiness with objectiv...

Sexuality can be understood as a broad concept that is configured on the individual erotic from a diffuse predisposition shaped according to the individual experiences of the subject, mediated by values, ideals and cultural models [3]. It is, therefore, cultural product that is for all ages and special features about the manner in which it is expressed and is felt and experienced by each indivi...

Studies on mate preferences usually examine heterosexual attraction; comparatively little is known about preferences of individuals whose sexuality is aimed at the same sex. This study examined preferences of two groups of androphilic individuals homosexual men and heterosexual women for male facial and vocal level of masculinity. Facial images of 61 men and vocal recordings of 30 men were rate...

This article attempts to investigate how Chinese women writers themselves understand binary genders. Being named as the Aother,@ feminists in the west can speak from a politically Adifferent@ position against centered patriarchal ideology. By contrast, Chinese women in the 1980s find their female gender completely inscribed within the state feminism, which emphasizes Aasexuality@ rather than Ad...

Earlier studies have shown that both gender and masculine or feminine traits affects judgements about a person's qualities. This study builds upon earlier research and investigates the relation between voice and appearance with respect to gender based stereotype judgements, by letting participants listen to and then rate two of totally eight different digital characters, four female and four ma...

OBJECTIVES This current study investigates the relationship between the endorsement of masculine and feminine gender role orientation in accordance with Bem's indices and both personal resources and coping with stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Life Orientation Scale-Revised, the Gener...

In the period between puberty and maturity takes place the process of brain maturation. Hormone levels induce changes in neurons and direct the architecture and structural functionality thus affecting patterns of development of different brain areas. The onset of puberty brings with it the invasion of the female brain by high levels of hormones, cyclic surges of estrogen and progesterone in add...

this article considers literature with all its literary obligations as a narration of language and analyzes two generations of authors while focusing on the gender variable. in this research two pairs of literary texts within the period of forty years are analyzed using discourse analysis and speech from formalist school of literature, in order to extract the literary and gender features. the a...