Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and communion with femininity. In fact, gender role scales measure concepts related to agency and communion to define stereotypical masculine and feminine traits. However, previous findings showed that 18-to-29-year-old women and men did not differ on a scale of communion, whereas 30–40-year-old women and men did. This study attempts to replicate these findings 10 years after the data were initially collected and to clarify whether the findings support developmental and/or cohort-related trends for gender and communion.

Grysman, Azriel, and Jordan A. Booker. Agency, Communion, and the Shifting Gender Norms in American Society? A Registered Report. Journal of Research in Personality 107 (2023): e104427. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656623000892

Azriel Grysman is a professor of Psychology at Dickinson College.

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