1.The relationship between sex-role orientation and codependency dimensions (“Put the focus outside of self”, “lack of open expression of feeling” )in codependency had significant negative correlation with expressiveness (p < .05), and “identified caretaking activities” in codependency had significant positive correlation with expressiveness (p < .05).“Put the focus outside of self”, “captured a sense of purpose through relationship with others” and “lack of open expression of feeling” in codependency had significant negative correlation with instrumentalness (p < .05).

2.The canonical correlation between sex-role orientation and codependency

I.   The first canonical correlation between sex-role orientation and codependency showed that the more the female had expressiveness and instrumentalness, the less she had “put the focus outside of self”, “captured a sense of purpose through relationship with others” and “lack of open expression of feeling”. This result suggested that androgyous female had less “similarity to codependency”.

II. The second canonical correlation between sex-role orientation and codependency showed that when a female had more expressiveness and less instrumentalness, she had more “identified caretaking activities” and “captured a sense of purpose through relationship with others”, indicating that “feminine” females had more“identified caretaking activities” and “captured a sense of purpose through relationship with others”.

3.There were no interactions between different sex-role orientation and codependency scores for self-esteem.

Based on these findings, “codependency” may be different from “similarity to codependency” or “expressiveness” (feminine orientation). For the future research, exploration of the definition of codependency and clarification of the idea of codependency are suggested.