Abstract
Results of a study of 44 male and 44 female undergraduates confirmed
the hypothesis that willingness to confront existential issues would be
associated with endorsement of opposite-sex characteristics or the
relative absence of same-sex characteristics. Participants
completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and Avoidance of Existential
Confrontation Scale developed by P. C. Thauberger et al.
Masculine-typed men and feminine-typed women reported the most
avoidance of existential issues. Feminine-typed and
undifferentiated men reported more existential openness than their
sex-typed counterparts, and androgynous men were particularly receptive
to life's challenges.