The Study On Senior Intellectual Women’s Personality Characteristic Of Androgyny And The Relationship With Mate Selection Preference

This research explores the mate selection preference of the senior intellectual womenthrough the self-made questionnaire, and also explores the the senior intellectual women’spersonality characteristic of androgyny through the the revised Bem Sex Role Inventory and theNEO Five-Factor Inventory. On this basis, the research explores the influence that thepersonality characteristic of androgyny has made on the mate selection preference. The mainconclusions are as follows:1. The mate selection preference of the senior intellectual women isa multidimensional psychological structure, it includes personality charm, physiological feature,ability and social, emotional understanding, economic background, family life. The reliabilityand validity of the self-made questionnaire of the senior intellectual women’s mate selectionpreference match well with the requirements of the statistic. And it can be a effective tool tomeasure the mate selection preference of the senior intellectual women.2. The mate selectionpreference of the senior intellectual women has a a pluralist development tendency. They takeall aspects of the spouse into consideration carefully. But the general trend is very obvious. It isthat the the senior intellectual women think highly of the spouse’s emotional spending andinteraction, individual personality charm and the management of family life.3. The number ofthe senior intellectual women who have a androgyny gender role in this study is running at70.5percent. And all kinds of gender role types have a significant difference, the order isandrogyny, femininity, masculinity, undifferentiation. The score of the neuroticism of the fourgender role types has no significant difference, but it has a significant difference on theextroversion, openiong, agreeableness and conscientiousness.4. The score of the neuroticism ofthe senior intellectual women who have a androgyny gender role is higher than the norm. Butthe score of the extroversion, openiong, agreeableness and conscientiousness is within the limitsof the norm. The typical personality characteristic of androgyny of the senior intellectualwomen have been extracted. They are receptive and easy-going, competent and responsible,negative emotions, enthusiastic and outgoing, sensitive and literary.5. The mate selectionpreference of the senior intellectual women has a significant difference on profession and somedimensions of the mate selection preference has a significant difference on age, educationbackground, marriage status and personal monthly income. The personality characteristic ofandrogyny of the senior intellectual women has a significant difference on profession, too. Andsome dimensions of the personality characteristic of androgyny has a significant difference on age and personal monthly income, but it has no significant difference on education backgroundand marriage status.6. The personality characteristic of androgyny and the mate selectionpreference of the senior intellectual women have a significant correlation. And the personalitycharacteristic of androgyny has positive predict ability to the mate selection preference. And thedimensions enthusiastic and outgoing, receptive and easy-going, sensitive and literary have acertain degree of prediction and influence on the mate selection preference. The more obviouspersonality characteristic of androgyny who has, the more diversified mate selection preference.