whether they are male or female based on their biology and anatomy
Someone’s gender is...
whether they are a man or a woman based on their appearance, behaviour and psychological traits.
androgyny
having high levels of male and female behavioural and personality traits
In the 1970s, SandraBem described people with high levels of both masculine and feminine traits as androgynous .
The Bem Sex Role Inventory measures…
how much people conform to sex-role stereotypes.
how androgynous people are.
Three strengths of the BSRI are…
it has high external reliability
it has low gender bias ( 50 men, 50 women)
it has high internal reliability (split-test)
Limitations of BSRI
people may interpret the scale in different ways
it may lack temporal validity
Flaherty and Dusek conducted a study showing that people who are androgynous , according to the BSRI , tend to have higheremotional well-being than those who are not androgynous.
