Gender Role Attitudes Scale
Gender role attitudes scales measure how egalitarian or traditional a person's beliefs are about the appropriate roles, rights, and behaviours of women and men. The best-validated example is the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale (SRES) developed by Lynda and Daniel King in 1997, which assesses attitudes across marital, parental, employment, social-interpersonal, and educational domains. Such scales sit alongside the Attitudes Toward Women Scale as standard instruments for capturing gender ideology in social and psychological research.
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- King, L. A., & King, D. W. (1997). Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale: Development, psychometric properties, and recommendations for future research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21(1), 71–87. DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00101.x ↗
- Spence, J. T., Helmreich, R., & Stapp, J. (1973). A short version of the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS). Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 2(4), 219–220. DOI: 10.3758/BF03329252 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Gender Role Attitudes and Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scales. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/gender-studies/gender-role-attitudes-scale
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