Spanish Adaptation of the Prasad-Baron Questionnaire: A Multidimensional Questionnaire to Measure Gender Attitudes, Beliefs and Principles

By Elisabet Tasa-Vinyals, Rosa Maria Raich-Escursell, Marisol Mora-Giral

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: 10.0, Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona, language: English, abstract: Gender ideology plays an important role in human behaviour, and therefore its assessment, not only in particular areas but considering a wide variety of situations concerning both public and private life, is necessary. This study presents the Spanish version of the questionnaire developed in 1996 by Prasad and Baron, a tool for measuring gender-role cognitions, and analyses its psychometric properties in a sample of 233 Spanish undergraduate students. The questionnaire showed a 3-dimension structure -Equality, Belief and Principles- which coincided partially with the theoretical original one. Excellent reliability (Cronbach) results, of over .90, were found. Concurrent validity assessed with a measure of conservatism (E: r = -.253, p

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3668081352
• ISBN13: 9783668081352
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"