The Bem Sex-Role Inventory Reexamined
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 45 (3) , 935-941
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.45.3.935
Abstract
533 women and 361 men undergraduates were administered the 20-item masculine and the 20-item feminine scales of the Bern Sex-role Inventory. Factor analyses of the 40 items produced for both men and women 6 interpretable factors: nurturance, dominance, autonomy, bipolar M-F, competition, and leadership. Thus the inventory appears to be very complex. Nevertheless, multiple correlations ( R) of the 40 items with the total masculinity and femininity scores separately produced an R = .75 for the masculinity scale and R = .86 for the femininity scale. Most of the items with significant contributions to each of the scales were consistent with the original scoring used by Bem.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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