Gender Identity: Affected by Social Change?
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 73 (1) , 19-30
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa730102
Abstract
To determine whether social changes in attitudes toward the role of men and women have influenced gender identity measures, 60 male and female college students were assessed using both a Thematic Apperception Test measure (May's, 1966, Deprivation/Enhancement measure) and a self-report measure (Bem's, 1974, Sex Role Identity [BSRI]), both of which were developed more than 20 years ago. Although some recent research has found the BSRI to no longer differentiate between men and women (Twenge, 1997; Wilcox & Francis, 1997), this study found significant gender differences for both gender identity measures.1Keywords
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