Escalas de masculinidad y feminidadestado actual de la cuestión
- Fernández Sánchez, Juan
- Quiroga Estévez, María Ángeles
- Olmo Benito, Isabel del
- Rodríguez, Antonio
ISSN: 0214-9915
Year of publication: 2007
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Pages: 357-365
Type: Article
More publications in: Psicothema
Abstract
Tras más de un cuarto de siglo de investigaciones con las nuevas escalas de masculinidad y feminidad, se realiza una evaluación de su fundamentación teórica y de su adecuación empírica. Las hipótesis a poner a prueba son: a) la multidimensionalidad frente a la bidimensionalidad; b) la insatisfactoria proporción de varianza explicada (menos del 50%); c) la inconsistencia entre los factores a la luz del modelo dualístico(bidimensionalidad independiente). Se llevaron a cabo tres estudios diferentes, aunque complementarios: 618 estudiantes universitarios participaron en el primero, 200 en el segundo y 287 en el tercero. Tras los correspondientes análisis factoriales (PFA), los resultados ponen de manifiesto el apoyo empírico a la multidimensionalidad, la escasa proporción de varianza explicada por los ítems de estas escalas y la relativa inconsistencia entre factores. Se analizan todos estos datos a la luz del modelo de la doble realidad del sexo y el género.
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