Abstract
The present study investigated the relationships between sex role orientation and restrained eating, emotional eating and trait anxiety for 165 normal-weight adolescent females. Sex role orientation was found to be significantly related to not restrained eating or emotional eating but trait anxiety. It showed that 1) masculinity, but not femininity, was negatively associated with trait anxiety, 2) both undifferentiated and traditionally sex typed females scored significantly higher on trait anxiety than did androgynous females. The present results were most supportive of not the congruence model or androgyny model but the masculinity model, and it was suggested that lack of masculinity tend to lead to high trait anxiety and emotional eating.
