MENTAL-HEALTH AND AMERICAN-INDIAN WOMENS MULTIPLE ROLES

The author's purpose in conducting this study was to identify the rela tionship of sex role orientation to indices of psychological well-bein g among 148 American Indian working women from the Midwest. Analyses r evealed that the sex-typed group had significantly higher depression s cores, higher role conflict scores, lower self-esteem scores and lower life satisfaction scores when compared with the cross-typed and andro gynous groups. The undifferentiated group had significantly lower self -esteem scores when compared with the androgynous group. Further resea rch is needed to understand how different sex role orientations suppor t different roles that American Indian women occupy.