Measuring Sexist Attitudes in a Situational Context. Research Report #16-77.

Autor/inn/en	Shueman, Sharon A.; Sedlacek, William E.
Institution	Maryland Univ., College Park. Counseling Center.
Titel	Measuring Sexist Attitudes in a Situational Context. Research Report #16-77.
Quelle	(1976), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attitude Measures; College Students; Females; Higher Education; Item Analysis; Semantic Differential; Sex Differences; Sex Discrimination; Sex Role; Sex Stereotypes; Situational Tests; Student Attitudes; Test Interpretation; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Attitudes Toward Women Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Itemanalyse; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Sex; Discrimination; Geschlecht; Diskriminierung; Geschlechterrolle; Situationsansatz; Schülerverhalten; Test analysis; Testauswertung; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität
Abstract	Two forms of the Situational Attitude Scale Women-4 (SASW-4), a 49-item inventory designed to measure attitudes toward sex roles, were administered to college students to investigate the psychometric properties of the instrument. Both forms of the SASW-4 presented seven personal and social situations, but differed in the sex of the individuals described in the items. Responses were made on five-point semantic differential scales and test items are appended. Spence and Helmreich's Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS), a 55-item inventory concerning women's social, educational, and vocational roles, was also administered. Concurrent validity was established from the correlation of SASW-4 and AWS scores. Two way analyses of variance (form by sex) were performed on SASW-4 total score and individual item responses. Forty-one of the 49 items on the SASW-4 yielded significant differences between forms, and 28 yielded significant interaction effects. Men scored significantly higher on the form in which individuals behaved in traditional ways, while women scored more positively in situations in which individuals exhibited non-traditional behaviors. When subjects were combined, the response to the traditional behavior forms of the SASW-4 was significantly more positive than to the non-traditional form. Potential uses for the instrument are briefly discussed. (Author/JAC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC