The aim of this study is to investigate whether there are structural
differences between psychological spaces of men and women under the simplest
possible model of analysis of these differences, i.e. based on comparing configurations of vectors of cognitive and
conative functions. On a sample of 2664 participants (1332 males and 1332
females) aged 18 years who were described by three tests of the efficiency of
cognitive processors, six tests of disorders of conative regulators, four tests
of disorders of socialization process, a factor of the intensity of manifest
aberrant behavior and academic achievement, structural differences between the
sexes were analyzed using the methods of least squares, (maximum likelihood). These
and many numerically smaller but still significant differences in the configurations
of the analyzed variables show that it is almost absolutely certain that male
and female participants of this age live in different psychological spaces,
which is confirmed by the results of previously conducted analyses of
structural differences in cognitive and conative spaces between men and women.
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