Egalitarian sex role attitudes among Japanese human service professionals: Confirmatory factor analytic study

Abstract

The psychometric properties of the short form of the Scale of Egalitarian Sex Role Attitudes (SESRA-S) were studied among human service professionals. An exploratory factor analysis yielded two factors interpreted as reflecting women's rights (e.g. women at home and men at work [a reverse item]) and women's independence (e.g. working outside is equally important for women [a non-reverse item]), respectively. Confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit. Impact of participant age, sex, residential area, and type of profession on sex role egalitarianism were examined by four-way layout anova . Men in rural areas had the lowest score in the women's rights subscale and psychiatrists in rural areas had the lowest score in the women's independence subscale.

Assessing the Dimensionality and Other Psychometric Properties of a Greek Translation of the Sex-role Egalitarianism Scale (Form B)

“…These roles refer to what we have described in the introduction as formal contact egalitarianism which as was pointed out tends to be associated with the public social sphere which appears to be more progressive than the private social sphere. This result is consistent with similar findings reported by Uji et al (2006) and can be attributed to the fact that in Greece rural areas on the whole tend to be closer to traditional forms and structures (Argyrou 1996).…”

“…Uji et al (2006) have found that people who live in rural areas had less egalitarian attitudes than people who reside in urban areas. Based on the above finding, we wanted to see whether the same results will be revealed from the Greek sample having in mind Argyrou's (1996) ethnographic study which indicated a similar point.…”

Rape Myth Scale: Factor structure and relationship with gender egalitarianism among Japanese professionals

“…There were three latent variables: Rape Myth Acceptance, a factor that was abstracted from the RMS‐S; and two subscales of the SESRA‐S: Women's Rights and Women's Independence. Furthermore, we presumed a correlation between Women's Rights and Women's Independence because an exploratory factor analysis produced a correlation between these two factors of 0.312 36 . The fitness of this model was as follows: GFI (0.850), AGFI (0.821) and RMSEA (0.074).…”

“…Uji et al . conducted exploratory factor analysis of the SESRA‐S and found two factors of the inventory 36 . The description of the items belonging to the first factor generally addresses the idea that women are supposed to take traditional women's role.…”

“…35 Uji et al conducted exploratory factor analysis of the SESRA-S and found two factors of the inventory. 36 The description of the items belonging to the first factor generally addresses the idea that women are supposed to take traditional women's role. They thought that the opposite meaning of these items addresses the release of women from being a home-maker and named this 'Women's Right'.…”