A Portuguese short form of the Sex-Role Ideology Scale

Abstract

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Sex-Role Ideology Scale in Portugal. In the first of 2 samples were 139 undergraduate volunteers. Internal consistency was .75, and a factor analysis gave some support fora unidimensional solution, which is consistent with scoring provided by the authors of the scale. Given the continuing ambiguity about the factor structure of the scale, we developed a unidimensional short form of 14 items. There was a tendency for the women to obtain higher scores for Egalitarianism than the men. 93 women of the second sample provided data for cross-validation of the structure of the short form.