The Gender Role Beliefs Scale (GRBS) is a brief, psychometrically sound, unidimensional, self report measure of gender role ideology--defined as prescriptive beliefs about appropriate behavior for men and women.
Developed by:
Paula S. Kerr, Ronald R. Holden (Queens University)
Items and subscales:
20 items
Cronbach's alpha:
0.88
Study population(s):
Three groups of undergraduate men and women; Undifferentiented participants whose views on gender role ideology was unknown, feminist women recruited from feminist-oriented groups and university classes, and "traditional" women recruited from organizations considered (by the researchers) to be traditionally oriented.
Additional information:
Items from the questionaire were taken from/inspired by Nadler and Morrow (1959), Kalin and Tilby (1978), Dempewolff (1974), Benson and Vincent (1980), Larsen and Long (1988), Spence and Helmreich (1972), and Kirpatrick (1936).
Measure validated?:
Y
Link(s) to Validation Study and/or Measure:
Citation of original article
Get citationKerr, P. S., & Holden, R. R. (1996). Development of the Gender Role Beliefs Scale (GRBS). Journal of Social Behavior & Personality, 11(5), 3-16. doi:10.1037/t14862-000.