Factorial Validity of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory

1983 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Bledsoe
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
White Female ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Common Variance ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common ◽  
White Female Teachers

A factor analysis of responses from 44 white female teachers to the 40-item Bern Sex-role Inventory yielded two factors, Masculinity and Femininity accounting for 20.7 and 16.2%, respectively, of the common variance. Of the 40 items 28 performed as hypothesized, suggesting sound construct validity for the total scales. 12 adjectives and phrases (gullible, flatterable, athletic, and ambitious, among others) were not perceived as associated with masculine or feminine roles, suggesting that perceptions of traditional sex roles are changing.

Sex Differences in Female Teachers' Approval and Disapproval Behaviors as Related to Their Self-Definition of Sex-Role Type

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Bledsoe
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
White Female ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Median Split ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
White Female Teachers

44 white female teachers were observed by two observers for six separate 20-min. periods for a total of 88 hr. The frequencies of approval and disapproval behaviors toward boys and girls were obtained. After observation, the Bem Sex-role Inventory was administered to the teachers, and four groups of 11 teachers each were classified by a median split-procedure as androgynous, masculine, feminine, and undifferentiated. As predicted, masculine teachers were more approving of boys' behavior, feminine teachers were more approving of girls' behavior and less approving of boys' behavior. In total observations, types of teacher did not differ, but when approval or disapproval was considered, there were significant differences according to pupils' sex and type of observation. Teachers' self-definition of sex-role type is likely to influence significantly their behavior toward middle-school boys and girls.

Factor Analysis of Sex-Typed Items from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Replication

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Collins ◽  
Carrie Wherry Waters ◽  
L. K. Waters
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Female College ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Affective Orientation

Based on the responses of 118 male and 79 female college students, a factor analysis of the 40 sex-typed items from the Bem Sex-role Inventory and sex of respondent yielded four factors which were almost identical to those reported by Waters, Waters, and Pincus (1977). One of the factors essentially represented the gender of the respondent. A second factor representing an expressive, affective orientation was defined by feminine sex-typed items. The other two factors were primarily defined by masculine sex-typed items. One stressed independence, self-sufficiency, and individuality while the other stressed leadership, aggressiveness, and forcefulness. These latter factors were interpreted in terms of an “agentic” orientation (Bakan, 1966) and an “instrumental” orientation (Parsons & Bales, 1955).

Factor Analysis of Sex-Typed Items from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Multiple Replication across Time

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1323-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. K. Waters ◽  
Paula M. Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Multiple Replication

Replications of two factor analyses of the Bern Sex-role Inventory published in the 1970s were conducted for two samples of college students ( Ns = 362 and 267). Four factors, which were almost identical to those of the previous analyses, were obtained in each sample. One of the factors essentially represented the sex of the respondent. A second factor, representing an expressive, affective orientation, contained loadings of about half of the feminine sex-typed items. The masculine sex-typed items split into two factors. One stressed dominance, aggressiveness, and leadership while the other stressed independence, individuality, and self-sufficiency. These latter factors were interpreted in relation to two masculine orientations suggested by Bakan in 1966 and Parsons and Bales in 1955.

Factor Analysis of Masculine and Feminine Sex-Typed Items from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Wherry Waters ◽  
L. K. Waters ◽  
Steven Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Female College ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Affective Orientation

Based on the responses of 252 (126 male, 126 female) college undergraduates, a factor analysis of the 40 sex-typed items from the Bern Sex-role Inventory and sex of respondent yielded four factors. One of the factors essentially represented the biological sex of the respondent. A second factor, representing an expressive, affective orientation, contained loadings of 14 of the 20 feminine sex-typed items. The other two factors (dominant, aggressive and independent, self-sufficient) were defined primarily by masculine sex-typed items. Biological sex of the respondent did not load on any of the three latter factors. The obtained factor structure was very similar to that reported by Gaudreau (1975) for non-college respondents. Taken together, these two analyses (a) support the use of the Masculinity and Femininity scales as independent constructs and (b) suggest several items that could be deleted from both scales to increase both homogeneity and interpretability.

Factor Invariance in the Measurement of Job Satisfaction

1979 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 985-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Bledsoe ◽  
William C. Baber
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Common Variance ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Context Variables ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common

A factor analysis of responses from 293 Georgia high school business education teachers to the 100-item long-form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire yielded two factors, Intrinsic Satisfaction and Extrinsic Satisfaction, accounting for 51.4 and 11.1%, respectively, of the common variance. Four items (3 previously identified as Intrinsic and 1 as Extrinsic) loaded .37 or higher on both factors, suggesting that satisfaction may be a function of interaction of personal and context variables, consistent with the concept of social compensation.

scholarly journals Pouzdanost i faktorska struktura juš-upitnika

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Grgin ◽  
Katica Lacković-Grgin
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Common Variance ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common ◽  
Second Year ◽  
General School

On a sample of 243 pupils from the first and second year of secondary school, the reliability and factor structure scale of the newly designed JUS-ques- tionnaire for the measurement of general school self-concept of young people, as well as their self-concept in specific subjects, was testedOn the basis of the obtained reliability co-efficients (type Cronbach—Alpha) it was established that all the scales in the questionnaire had satisfactory reliability. The factor analysis showed two factors, flinguistic—historical and mathematical —physical) which explains 57.44% of the common variance of all the results.

Do the BSRI and PAQ Really Measure Masculinity and Femininity?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1000-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Mª Teresa Coelleo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
School Students ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Log Linear

The two most used instruments to assess masculinity (M) and femininity (F) are the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Personality Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ). Two hypotheses will be tested: a) multidimensionality versus bidimensionality, and b) to what extent the two instruments, elaborated to measure the same constructs, classify subjects in the same way. Participants were 420 high school students, 198 women and 222 men, aged 12–15 years. Exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis were carried out and log-linear models were tested. The data support a) the multidimensionality of both instruments and b) the lack of full concordance in the classification of persons according to the fourfold typology. Implications of the results are discussed regarding the supposed theory behind instrumentality/expressiveness and masculinity/femininity, as well as for the use of both instruments to classify different subjects into the four distinct types.

A confirmatory factor analysis of the Bem Sex Role Inventory: Old questions, new answers

Sex Roles ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 423-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredda Blanchard-Fields ◽  
Lynda Suhrer-Roussel ◽  
Christopher Hertzog
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

The Attitudes of Men and Women concerning Gender Differences in Grief

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Versalle ◽  
Eugene E. McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Role Socialization ◽  
Sex Role Socialization ◽  
Female Target

Attitudes concerning gender and grief were investigated using a convenience sample of 106 men and women ages 23 to 82 years. Participants rated conjugal grief behaviors of target figures for sympathy and appropriateness on the Attitudes Toward Gender and Grief Scale, rated their own sex-role type on the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and provided demographic information and a brief grief history. Results from factor analysis of the Attitudes Toward Gender and Grief Scale showed evidence for the construct validity of the scale by yielding three factors: sympathy, appropriateness of instrumental grief, and appropriateness of intuitive grief. The hypothesis that factor analysis of the Attitudes Toward Gender and Grief Scale would show that vignettes describing gender-stereotypical grief behavior would load positively on factors for sympathy and appropriateness was not confirmed. However, the hypothesis that female participants would give more sympathy to grieving people than males was confirmed. Contrary to expectation, participants did not give female target figures more sympathy than male figures; women did not give the most sympathy to female target figures; and men did not give male target figures the least sympathy. As hypothesized, feminine sex-typed and androgynous participants gave more sympathy to grieving people than masculine sex-typed participants. Findings were discussed in terms of evolutionary, developmental, and sex-role socialization theories.

The Assessment of Economic Performance of OECD Countries—Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Peijie Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

This paper studies the economic performance of 19 OECD countries. Eight economic variables are selected to describe the economic performance which are incorporated into two factors afterwards by factor analysis. The relations among the variables and that between factors and variables are analysed. A comparative study is made, based on the factor scores of these 19 countries; and the countries are classified into 5 categories using cluster analysis, according to their similarities in the variables and the extracted factors. The common characteristics of the countries with similar economic performances on the two factors are discussed. The paper presents an outline of the nations’ economic performance during this period. It is quite interesting, as a by-product finding, that the countries sharing the economy similarities also have the geographical communalities.

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