Sex-Specific Functional Connectivity in the Reward Network Related to Distinct Gender Roles.

ABSTRACT: Gender roles are anti-dichotomous and malleable social constructs that should theoretically be constructed independently from biological sex. However, it is unclear whether and how the factor of sex is related to neural mechanisms involved in social constructions of gender roles. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate sex specificity in gender role constructions and the corresponding underlying neural mechanisms. We measured gender role orientation using the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, used a voxel-based global brain connectivity method based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize the within-network connectivity in the brain reward network, and analyzed how the integration of the reward network is related to gender role scores between sex groups. An omnibu

SUBMITTER: Du Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7831777 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature