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The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and provide normative data for the Silencing the Self Scale, a newly devised instrument for measuring cognitive schemas hypothesized to be related to depression in women. The study also tested the hypothesis that race would moderate the relationship between silencing the self and depression. The sample consisted of 80 women: 40 African Americans and 40 Caucasians. Controlling for income and socially desirable response bias, a significant relationship between silencing the self and depression was found only for Caucasian women. It was suggested that differing values and socialization practices may be responsible for the findings.

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The present study used a multidimensional approach to invesigate the relationship between dysphoria and body image in college women. Unlike earlier studies, the effects of body mass and eating disorder status were statistically controlled. Body image was measured in terms of three modalities: affective evaluation of appearance, cognitive appraisal of one's body relative to that of one's peers, and perceptual size estimation. Results indicated that there is a significant relationship between dysphoria and both affective and cognitive evaluations of one's body. There was no significant relationship between dysphoria and perceptual size estimation scores. These results lend support to the importance of the distinction between affective, cognitive, and perceptual modalities in the assessment of body image, as well as the importance of taking affective state into account when investigating the relationship between eating disorders and body image. 0 1992 john Wiley & Sons, Inc.

This study investigated the reported marital satisfaction of couples as it related to their sex-role orientations. One hundred eighty-five couples living in Columbia, MD, completed Rem Sex-Role Inventories and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Tests. The results suggest that couples in which both partners are androgynous report higher marital satisfaction than both sex-typed (traditional role) couples and incongruent (sex-typed spouse with non-sex-typed spouse) couples. These results were discussed in a framework of cognitive balance.