Personal Attributes Questionnaire.
PAQ
- What it measures
- Gender-related personality traits as 2 dimensions: Instrumentality/agency ('masculine') and Expressiveness/communion ('feminine'), plus a bipolar M-F scale; self-concept rather than attitudes
- Length and format
- 24 (8 Masculinity + 8 Femininity + 8 Masculinity-Femininity bipolar) in the short form; 55-item long form. 5-point bipolar self-rating (between two trait poles) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into several languages (e.g. Spanish, Persian, ZH, and others); used cross-culturally in gender research
- 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., & Stapp, J. (1975). Ratings of self and peers on sex-role attributes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32(1), 29-39.
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