Androgyny and Sex role inventory
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- Created on: 11-12-20 10:30
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- Androgyny and the sex role inventory
- Means a combination of male and female characteristic
- PSYCH ANDROGYNY
- behavioural and emotional traits
- taking on whichever quality best fitted the situation
- most beneficial, able to adapt to the demands of modern life and allow boys and girls to have equal opportunities
- behavioural and emotional traits
- SEX ROLE INVENTORY
- questionnaire to test androgyny
- 100 American undergrads fed back most desirable personality traits for each gender
- 20 male 20 female 20 neutral as distractors
- after a criticism from Spence et al (1975) she later added undifferentiated as a category
- then rate themselves on a 7 point likert scale
- scores are added up and calculate masculinity, femininity and androgyny
- EVALUATION
- research support has found a positive correlation between androgyny and psychological health
- Prakash et al tested 100 married Indian women, those high in masculinity had lower depression scores etc
- so it has a psycho-protective effect
- Prakash et al tested 100 married Indian women, those high in masculinity had lower depression scores etc
- very reductionist view of gender identity
- Golombok and Fivush say in order to understand it more fully, broader issues like interests and perception of abilities should be considered
- so it doesn't provide an accurate depiction of an individual's level of androgyny, questions validity
- using structuralism can be useful to understand individual aspects of androgyny
- Golombok and Fivush say in order to understand it more fully, broader issues like interests and perception of abilities should be considered
- issues in the methodology, it is a self report method.
- easily lie about their traits on the likert scale, may feel judged for responding a certain way and choose to use demand traits
- low internal validity and so does not measure what it is supposed to
- easily lie about their traits on the likert scale, may feel judged for responding a certain way and choose to use demand traits
- research support has found a positive correlation between androgyny and psychological health
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