The Bem Sex-Role Inventory: Proposal of a short version in Spanish

The study objective was to examine the factorial structure, relia-bility and to provide some evidence for validity of the Spanish version of the Bem Sexual Roles Inventory (BSRI), which assesses self-description in terms of gender traits. A sample of 2,672 Spanish participants, heterosexu-al adults...

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Autores: Gómez Berrocal, Carmen, Cervilla, Oscar, Álvarez Muelas, Ana, Carlos Sierra, Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/125606
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.502311
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/125606
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bem Sex-Role Inventory
Reliability
Validity
Spanish version
Inventario de Roles Sexuales de Bem
Fiabilidad
Validez
Versión en español
CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología
Descripción
Sumario:The study objective was to examine the factorial structure, relia-bility and to provide some evidence for validity of the Spanish version of the Bem Sexual Roles Inventory (BSRI), which assesses self-description in terms of gender traits. A sample of 2,672 Spanish participants, heterosexu-al adults (1,289 men, 1,383 women) distributed into four age groups (18-25, 26-35, 36-55, 56 years or more), completed a Spanish 40-item version of BSRI. An 8-item scale is proposed with a two-dimensional structure: Masculinity (M) and Femininity (F). Both factors present adequate reliabi-lity. Regarding evidence for validity, men (vs. women) scored higher in M, and women (vs. men) in F. The M scores were higher for the participants aged less than 56 years. No differences were found in the F scores among age groups. We discuss the usefulness of this measure to assess interindi-vidual differences, across sex and age, in the self-attribution of traditional gender traits.