Citation

Teri L. Sex Roles 1982; 8(6): 639-649.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00289897

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of client and therapist sex and sex-role style on clinical judgment. Therapists were asked to rate various aspects of functioning for bogus clinical descriptions which manipulated client characteristics. Four-way analyses of variance indicated that client sex-role style significantly affected ratings of current functioning, and client sex significantly affected ratings of expected functioning. These results appear to support an interpretation of sex bias in clinical judgments. Therapists negatively evaluated behaviors stereotypically female and expected females to be more amenable to intervention. Therapist sex was noninfluential. Therapist sex-role style was influential in certain areas of evaluation, but not in others.