The purpose of this study was to describe relationships between Finnish comprehensive vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes and selected personal and professional variables, and to analyze to what extent these variables separately and in combination explained the variance of sex-role attitudes. The independent variables consisted of individual characteristics (sex, age, marital status, sex of children, and household income) ,and professional characteristics (occupational area, job roles, years of teaching experience, and educational attainments). The dependent variable was a 36-item sex-role attitude scale. / Ph. D.