The picture changes somewhat, however, when the classifications are broken down by gender. Of course, more females are classified as low at any time because females are, on average, less aggressive than males with the way aggression was measured in this study. The question is—who is contributing to the continuity correlations in each gender? Overall, consistent with what has been reported in previous studies, males show a little greater tendency to maintain position in the population (40%) than do females (33%). However, the most interesting difference is that there is a greater tendency for initially high females to move out of the high category (only 18% stay) than there is for initially high males to move out of the high category (47% stay). On the other hand, males and females have very similar tendencies to stay in the low category (36% females stay and 38% males stay). In summary, the continuity of aggression found in males seems to be somewhat more owing to the high aggressives staying high than it is for females; however, for both genders the stability of
