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Abbreviated measures of sex role egalitarian attitudes

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Alternate 25-item short forms of the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale (SRES) were developed and examined for psychometric quality using data from a sample of 608 students. Internal consistency coefficients were .94 and .92 for the two forms, stability coefficients with a three-week test-retest in terval were .88 for each, and the coefficient of equivalence or alternate forms reliability was .87. As expected, females scored significantly more egalitarian than males on both short forms, and results of factor analyses pointed to unidimensional measurement of a single construct for males, females, and the total sample. Additional support for reliability and validity is overviewed. The abbreviated SRES forms appear to provide a psychometrically sound and time-efficient means for assessing egalitarian attitudes.

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The authors wish to thank Tammi Stebleton, Marcel Macelli, and Rhonda Coates for their assistance with data management.

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King, L.A., King, D.W. Abbreviated measures of sex role egalitarian attitudes. Sex Roles 23, 659–673 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00289254

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