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Gender - Coggle Diagram
Gender
Androgyny & the BSRI
Strengths:
The scale would appear to be valid and reliable:
The scale was developed by asking 50 male and 50 female judges to score 200 words on their social desirability for men or women. the top 20 where the words used in the test it was piloted by 1000 students and the results correlated with their personal identity. Showing a degree of validity.
Another follow-up study done tested a smaller sample but on two separate occasions and findings were similar each time showing good test-retest reliability.
Weaknesses:
Oversimplifies a complex concept:
it has been said that gender is too complex to be simplified to a single score. Golombock and Fivush said that other factors such as personal interests and personal belief of ability should be considered and it still shouldn't be quantified
Cultural and Historical bias:
The BSRI was developed over 40 years ago, personality traits that were considered acceptable and desirable, have changed a lot since then which means it lacks temporal validity.
Also all of the judges deciding on the words where American meaning that their idea or masculine and feminine can vary from other cultures meaning it has cultural bias.
Androgyny:
Andros- male
Gyne- female
displaying a balance of masculine and feminine characteristics in one's personality.
Sandra Bem said that people who are psychologically both male and female it allows them to be better suited to adapting to any situation.
BSRI:
Bem's scale presents 20 masculine characteristics and 20 feminine characteristics, and a further 20 neutral are added.
Participants have to rank themselves from 1-being never- to 7-being always- on how much that characteristics fit them.
Results:
-High masculine low feminine = Masculine
-Low masculine high feminine = Feminine
-High masculine high feminine = Androgynous
-Low masculine low feminine = undifferentiated
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