Ambivalent Sexism Inventory.
ASI
- What it measures
- Ambivalent sexism toward women on 2 correlated dimensions: Hostile Sexism (antipathy toward women who challenge men's status) and Benevolent Sexism (subjectively positive but patronising, protective attitudes)
- Length and format
- 22 (11 Hostile + 11 Benevolent). 6-point agreement (Likert) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated in 25+ nations / many languages (e.g. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, TR, ZH, JA, KO, plus others)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(3), 491-512.
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