Some Psychometric Properties of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory

Moreland, James Porter; Gulanick, Nancy A.; Montague, Eileen K.; Harren, Vincent A.

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“…Data from 126 respondents were submitted to a principal-components analysis, and the resulting factors were rotated employing the varimax rotation. Those items in both the masculine and feminine scales generally found to be irrelevant in previous studies (Gaudreau, 1977;Moreland et al, 1978;Waters et al, 1979) and the present study were eliminated.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Since the development of the BSRI, numerous factor analyses have been conducted to determine the factor structure of the masculinityfemininity (m-f) scales (Gaa, Liberman, & Edwards, 1979;Gaudreau, 1977;Gross, Batlis, Small, & Erdwins, 1979;Moreland, Gulanick, Montague, & Harren, 1978;Waters, Waters, & Pincus, 1977;Whetton & Swindells, 1977). All tend to support the multidimensionality of the BSRI.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Self‐Reported Social Desirability in Sex‐Stereotyped and Androgynous Individuals

Holleran

Staszkiewicz

Lopez

1983

Counseling and Values

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 76%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐Reported Social Desirability in Sex‐Stereotyped and Androgynous Individuals

Holleran

Staszkiewicz

Lopez

1983

Counseling and Values

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“…In recent years, a number of writers have questioned the reliability and validity of the BSRI (see Wheeless& Dierks-Stewart, 1981;Locksley & Colton, 1979;Pedhazur and Tetenbaum, 1979;Moreland, Gulanick, Montague, & Harren, 1978;Guadreau, 1977). Although the methodological integrity of the BSRI presently is an unresolved issue, considerable evidence supports both the reliability and the validity of the instrument (for replies to the major criticisms of the BSRI, see Spence & Helmreich, 1979;Bem, 1979).…”

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Contingency Rules Theory, Context, and Compliance Behaviors

Smith

1984

Human Comm Res

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The contingency rules theory assumes that: ( I ) compliance-gaining and compliance-resisting activities are governed antecedently by jive varieties of sevevaluative and adaptive contingency rules; (2) the actual contexts where social influence agents interact determine the configuration of rules governing their persuasive actions; and (3) an actual context is a function of volitional behavior within fixed potential contextual boundaries. Two studies are reported that assessed the power of self-evaluative and adaptive rules to explain subjects' compliance behaviors as a function of actual and potential contexts. In the first study. the impact that the three volitional variables, intimacy, personal benefits, andrights has on the mix of contingency rulesgoverning responses to compliancegaining messages was assessed. The second study measured the combined effects of the fixed potential variable, sex role of message recipients, and rwo volitional dimensions, power and rights. on the rule structure governing compliance behaviors. The results of both studies supported the contingency rules theory, demonstrating that the configuration of rules governing subjects' responses to persuasive requests varies sharply as a function of the interplay among the contextual dimensions of psychological sex-type, intimacy, personal benefits. power, and rights to resist persuasive messages. The advantages and limitations of the contingency rules theory k account of compliance-gaining behaviors are discussed.

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“…Several studies of the BSRI's dimensionality have shown the presence of more than two orthogonal factors (e.g. Gaudreau, 1977;Marsh & Myers, 1986;Moreland, Gulanick, Montague & Harren, 1978;Pedhatur & Tetenbaum, 1979;Ruch, 1984;Waters, Waters & Pincus, 1977;Wilson & Cook, 1984), indicating that the BSRI measures more than instrumentality and expressivity. It has been suggested that this inconcise factor structure is the result of Bem's attempt to use the BSRI as a measure of global M and F (Cook, 1985).…”

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confidence: 99%

Multidimensionality and the measurement of gender role attributes: A comment on Archer

McCreary

1990

British J Social Psychol

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This paper examines how the conceptual and psychometric limitations of gender role attribute questionnaires weaken Archer's (1989) contention that correlational analyses demonstrate the orthogonality of gender role attributes, attitudes, and behaviours. An examination of two popular attribute questionnaires (the PAQ and the BSRI) shows that masculinity and femininity are conceptually and operationally defined as instrumentality and expressivity, respectively. This restricted definition means that, although the PAQ and the BSRI may themselves show no association with gender‐related attitudes or behaviour, it is possible that there is such a relationship for attributes other than instrumentality and expressiveness. In addition, the multifactorial structure of the most popular trait questionnaire illustrates a serious psychometric limitation for gender role research, one which obscures further the interpretation of the relationship between the three gender role dimensions. Discussion centres on overcoming these limitations in order to address the multidimensionality of the gender role self‐concept.

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Some Psychometric Properties of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory

Abstract: In Study I responses to the 60 BSRI items from 580 college students were factor analyzed. Four factors were rotated to the Varimax criterion and lavalues > +1.0, while Masculine sex-typed per

Cited by 67 publications

References 9 publications

Self‐Reported Social Desirability in Sex‐Stereotyped and Androgynous Individuals

Self‐Reported Social Desirability in Sex‐Stereotyped and Androgynous Individuals

Contingency Rules Theory, Context, and Compliance Behaviors

Multidimensionality and the measurement of gender role attributes: A comment on Archer

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