Self-Descriptions of Mexican College Students in Response to the Bem Sex Role Inventory and Other Sex Role Items

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7842891
AutoresMaría Asunción Lara-Cantú (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, autor de correspondencia), Roberto Navarro-Arias (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Año1987
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas331-344
Fecha de publicación1987-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022002187018003004
OpenAlexW2157424925
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas19

Two samples, one of 453 undergraduate students from a private university in Mexico City and another of 485 from a public university, were given a Spanish version of the BSRI, and 58 new items of sex role traits developed in Mexico. Eight BSRI masculine items were significantly endorsed by males in both samples, and 10 feminine items were significantly endorsed by females. Fourteen other BSRI items were differentially endorsed in the expected direction in only one of the samples. Of the new items, 1 positive and 7 negative masculine items were significantly endorsed by males in both samples, whereas 3 positive and 1 negative feminine item were significantly endorsed by women. Twenty-two new items were significantly endorsed by one of the sexes in the expected direction, in only one of the samples. Some sex role traits are relevant to both American and Mexican college students, whereas others are relevant in the Mexican culture

Bem Sex-Role Inventory · Developmental psychology · Gender role · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology