Attitudes Toward Women Scale.

AWS

What it measures

Attitudes toward the rights, roles, and privileges of women (traditional vs egalitarian gender-role attitudes)

Length and format

55 (original 1972); 25-item (1973); 15-item (1978) short form most used. 4-point agreement (agree strongly - disagree strongly) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into several languages (e.g. Spanish, ZH, and others); historically widely used cross-culturally

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

Spence, J. T., & Helmreich, R. (1972). The Attitudes Toward Women Scale. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 2, 66-67.