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Further factor‐analytic investigation of the Thorne femininity study
Author(s) -
Posavac Emil J.,
Walker Ronald E.,
Foley Jeanne M.,
Sannito Thomas
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<24::aid-jclp2270330105>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - femininity , psychology , variance (accounting) , factor (programming language) , validation test , developmental psychology , psychometrics , test validity , psychoanalysis , accounting , computer science , business , programming language
The responses of 512 undergraduate women to 198 items of the Thorne Femininity Study were factor analyzed in order to isolate the dimensions of femininity represented among the items of this instrument. The procedure used isolated 11 orthogonal factors that accounted for 21.1% of the total variance. Three additional samples of women were tested (total N = 222) and compared to the college age samples on the 11 factors. The various samples differed in many systematic and statistically significant ways. Suggestions were made as to the possibility of developing new items to measure some aspects of femininity not represented completely among the items analyzed.