Analysis and Abbreviation of Bem's Sex-Role Inventory
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 43 (3) , 879-882
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1978.43.3.879
Abstract
Aims were to determine the dimensionality of the masculinity and femininity scales of the Bern Sex-role Inventory and to select a smaller subset of items to represent the two scales. Samples of 423 girls and 255 boys in Grades 9 to 13 from middle-class homes were administered the Bern inventory and the Interpersonal Style Inventory. The intercorrelations of the 40 sex-role inventory items were factored separately by sex. The first two factors clearly represented the masculinity and femininity dimensions. The abbreviated factor scores were combined configurally to categorize subjects as masculine, feminine, androgynous, and undifferentiated. A discriminant function analysis, using 15 interpersonal style scores, indicated that two dimensions were sufficient to differentiate these four sex roles.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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