Attitudes Toward Women Scale.
AWS
Attitudes toward the rights, roles, and privileges of women (traditional vs egalitarian gender-role attitudes)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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.
More in Values, attitudes, ideology and morality
- PVQ-21 / HVS - Portrait Values Questionnaire - 21 item (ESS Human Values Scale)
21 portraits (Universalism = 3 items; the other 9 values = 2 items each). open with attribution.
- AMI - Ambivalence toward Men Inventory
20 (10 Hostility toward Men + 10 Benevolence toward Men). open with attribution.
- ASI - Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
22 (11 Hostile + 11 Benevolent). open with attribution.
- ATLG - Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Scale
20 (10 ATL + 10 ATG); ATLG-S short form 10; ATLG-R revised wording. open with attribution.
- BIDR / PDS - Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding
40 (20 SDE + 20 IM) in BIDR Version 6. mixed.
- BJW (GBJW/PBJW) - Belief in a Just World Scales (General and Personal)
General BJW = 6 items; Personal BJW = 7 items (Dalbert); Lipkus Global BJW = 7 items. open with attribution.
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