2-androgyny and the BSRI

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androdgy

* balance of masculine and feminine characteristics e.g woman who likes football

what 2 perspectives can androgyny be viewed from?

* personality
* appearance
* androgynous personality is a mix
* androgynous appearance is neither

what does BSRI stand for?

Bem sex role inventory

outline what the BSRI

* 20 items male
* 20 items female
* 20 neutral characteristics
* self report 7 point likert scale
* then ppts measured across androgyny and masculinity

limitation with BSRI

* methodological issue, self report measure
* androgyny social, subjective idea
* differing ideas to their extent
* in contrats to sex which can be objectively measured
* BSRI unreliable?

strength of the BSRI

* however, supporting evidence with reliability and validity of the scale
* BSM went under a pilot study with 1000 students
* classification given by BSM mostly agreed with the students own perception of their personality
* same happened when it repeated 1 month later

another weakness of BSRI

* oversimplification of a subjective and social contrast like gender
* as suggested by Golombok
* researchers suggested that BSRI doesn’t consider smaller features of gender and androgyny like a persons interests
* so personal attribute questionnaire may be better .