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Assessing the generalizability of the BEM Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) : a replication of the BSRI’s item selection procecudures

University of British Columbia

Since its construction over 20 years ago, the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bern, 1974) has been used extensively in various types of research. The intent of the current study was to replicate Bern's item selection procedures for the BSRI to assess the current generalizability of the measure to students at a university in British Columbia in Canada. Two hundred and ten students (81 males and 129 females) enrolled in introductory anthropology and sociology courses were asked to rate the original 400 adjectives used to construct the BSRI on the basis of cultural definitions of gender-typed appropriateness. The results were as follows: first, 62 of the 73 sex-typed items that Bern (1974) found significantly more desirable for one gender than the other replicated in the current study; second, 88 additional items were rated as significantly more desirable forone gender than the other by both male and female U.B.C. judges; third, there were significant differences in the mean ratings on the 60 BSRI items by Bern's Stanford judges and the U.B.C. judges; and finally, the Asian judges in the current study rated fewer of the 60 BSRI items as significantly more desirable for one gender than the other than did the White judges.

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2009-01-27

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3943

Counselling Psychology

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