Gender Wording, Sex, and Response to Items on Achievement Value
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 46 (1) , 140-142
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.46.1.140
Abstract
Research on the effects of question-wording in survey research has shown that response patterns are affected by minor changes in wording. A special case of wording effects on perception and response occurs in sex-role research where evidence indicates that generic “man” is perceived as gender “man.” Contrary to these findings, a 1977 experiment with 437 college students responding to items from Rosen and Strodtbeck's scale for achievement value showed that variation in gender-wording had little effect on response patterns.Keywords
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