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Gender Role Beliefs Scale (GRBS)

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 citation
Kerr, 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.