Abstract
This study examined by two questionnaires images about the female body and sex role in 100 male and 100 female university students. The first questionnaire was for sex differences in response words to adjectives in word association (Study I), and the second was for sex differences and age differences in “like” and “dislike” responses to stimulus words that were presented after the word association (Study II). Main results were as follows: In Study I, the rate of responses to association words was lower and commonplace and similar responses were less frequent in males than in females. In contrast with males evaluation to manhood, females evaluated their physiological functions and their sex role negatively. Though evaluation to “woman” was lower in females, evaluation to “mother” was high and positive both in males and females. In Study II, four factors were found and named as Family (Factor I), Affiliation (Factor II), Motherhood (Factor III), and Love-Marriage (Factor IV). Sex differences were found in Factor III, and age differences in Factors I and IV.
