A test of female sex identification: The thorne femininity study

Sannito, Thomas; Walker, Ronald E.; Foley, Jeanne M.; Posavac, Emil J.

doi:10.1002/1097-4679(197210)28:4<531::aid-jclp2270280426>3.0.co;2-i

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“…This same group (Sannito et al, 1972) on factor 2 than did three groups of undergraduates from an eastern college.…”

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“…It originally consisted of 200 items for each of which 10 clinical judges (5 males, 5 females) decided whether a "true" or a 11 false" response indicated a very feminine response to the item. Sannito et al (1972) factor-analyzed the test and reported two factors that they labeled "delight in being feminine" and "enjoyment of homemaker role." A person scoring high on the factor "delight in being feminine" is happy to have been born female and enjoys acting feminine (being charming, coquettish, attractive).…”

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Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

LaTorre¹,

Piper²

1979

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…This same group (Sannito et al, 1972) on factor 2 than did three groups of undergraduates from an eastern college.…”

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Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

LaTorre¹,

Piper²

1979

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…This relationship would probably have been obscured by using the typical M minus F single score, since children scoring high on the opposite-sex scale had a wide distribution of scores on the same-sex scale. Sannito et al (1972) have done considerable work with the Thorne Femininity Scale, which attempts to measure only one-half of the M-F dimension, in order to demonstrate the reliability and validity of a measure which is designed to elucidate only aspects of femininity with no reference to masculinity. However, the construction of this particular measure seems to suffer from so many other weaknesses that no real conclusions can be drawn as to the potential effectiveness of this kind of approach to the bipolarity issue.…”

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'Masculinity-Femininity: An Exception to a Famous Dictum?'

Constantinople¹

2005

Feminism & Psychology

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The major tests of masculinity-femininity (M-F) in adults are reviewed with special attention to the ways in which their construction and use reflect three untested assumptions about the nature of the M-F construct: (a) that it is best defined in terms of sex differences in item responses; (b) that it is a single bipolar dimension ranging from extreme masculinity at one end to extreme femininity at the other; and (c) that it is unidimensional in nature and can be adequately measured by a single score. Evidence which questions the validity of these assumptions and, therefore, of the tests of M-F is presented, with the conclusion that further theoretical and empirical work is necessary in all aspects of the problem.

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Further factor-analytic investigation of the Thorne femininity study

Posavac¹,

Walker²,

Foley³

et al. 1977

J. Clin. Psychol.

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The responses of 512 undergraduate women to 198 items of the Thorne Femininity Study were factor analyzed in order to isolate the dimensions of femininity represented among the items of this instrument. The procedure used isolated 11 orthogonal factors that accounted for 21.1% of the total variance. Three additional samples of women were tested (total N=222) and compared to the college age samples on the 11 factors. The various samples differed in many systematic and statistically significant ways. Suggestions were made as to the possibility of developing new items to measure some aspects of femininity not represented completely among the items analyzed.

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A test of female sex identification: The thorne femininity study

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

Gender identity and gender role in schizophrenia.

'Masculinity-Femininity: An Exception to a Famous Dictum?'

Further factor-analytic investigation of the Thorne femininity study

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