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BEM SEX-ROLE INVENTORY [1 record]

Record 1 2012-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology of the Family
OBS

Widely-used instrument, developed by Sandra Bem (1974, 1981) which uses a checklist of 60 adjectives, and yields 2 scores, one for femininity and one for masculinity, for each individual. Subjects are classified in the study using a median split technique, as suggested by Bem (1977), resulting in assignment into one of 6 categories: androgynous, female sex-typed, male sex-typed, female cross-sex typed, male cross-sex typed and undifferentiated...

Key term(s)
  • Bem Sex Role Inventory

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychologie sociale
  • Sociologie de la famille

Spanish

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