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The multiple factors of sex role identification: Rapprochement of unidimensional and bidimensional assessment
Author(s) -
Bernard Larry Craig
Publication year - 1984
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(198407)40:4<986::aid-jclp2270400419>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , femininity , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , identification (biology) , personality , masculinity , developmental psychology , bem sex role inventory , social psychology , psychoanalysis , botany , biology
Presented factor analytic data that seriously question the ability of both unidimensional masculinity‐femininity scales (e. g., MMPI MF) and bidimensional scales (e. g., Bem Sex Role Inventory) to assess comprehensively the multiple factors of sex role identification ( N = 207). These data support a multidimensional approach that brings together seven reliable factors in both types of scales: Aesthetic Interests, Manual and Physical Interests, Hypersensitivity, Instrumental‐Agentic, Expressive‐Communal, Timidity and Sentimentality, and Temerity. Evidence of the external validity of these factors was found in their correlations with personality scales of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.