Categorization agreement of the personality attributes questionnaire and the bem sex role inventory

✍ Scribed by John P. Gaa; Dov Liberman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 685 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198107)37:3<593::aid-jclp2270370326>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Unwersitg of Hauston

Two studies investigated the extent to which the BSRI and the PA& assigned the same individuals to identical sex-role categories. In the first study both instruments were administered to 160 Ss and in the second to 132 Ss. In both instances less than 55% of the Ss were assigned to identical categories by both instruments. Because there are substantial differences in the ways in which the measures were conceptualized and constructed, imperfect agree- ment in sex-role categorization might be expected. However, findings indicate that care must be taken when com aring results of studies that employed different instruments or when labeling individuals as belonging to specific sex-role Categories.