Group-Gender-Composition Factors in Sex-Role-Attitude Measurement
Abstract
This report tests the effects of certain gender-related situational factors on soldier response to sex-role-attitude measures and to examine the generality of published data reporting such effects with college students, two experiments were conducted. In Experiment I (N=217) soldiers completed a sex- role-attitude scale in classrooms (about 26 soldiers in each room) in which the proportion of soldiers of the subject's own sex was either 100% or 50%. Single- sex groups were proctored by a soldier of the same sex as the subjects, while mixed-sex groups were proctored in half the cases by a male and in half the cases by a female. In Experiment Ii (N=398), conducted 2 years later, soldiers completed the scale in classrooms (about 24 in each room) in which the proportion was 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25%. At each level, half the groups were proctored by two males and half were proctored by two females. In both experiments, egalitarianism scores were lower for males than for females (ps<. 001); but in neither experiment was the subject-sex x group-composition interaction or any of the other effects significant.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA172413
Entities
People
- Joel M. Savell
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences