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Constantin, Andreea and Voicu, Malina (2015). Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Surveys: Content Validity and Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance. Soc. Indic. Res., 123 (3). S. 733 - 752. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-0921

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Abstract

Measuring attitudes towards gender roles in comparative research is a challenging task. This paper aims at assessing the content validity and cross-cultural measurement invariance of the scales measuring attitudes towards gender roles in two large-scale comparative surveys, the International Social Survey Program 2002 and the World Values Survey 2005. The two scales are widely used in cross-cultural studies, they complement each other in measuring the complex concept of attitudes towards gender roles, and they cover an extensive number of European and non-European countries, allowing for the assessment of measurement invariance in different cultural settings. We assess the content by confronting the items included in the two surveys with the theoretical definitions employed by the literature, and we test for the cross-cultural measurement invariance by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. According to our results, these scales are only partially valid in measuring the complex concept of attitudes towards gender roles. Moreover, the two scales are configural and metric invariant in all countries included in our analysis, but they are not scalar invariant. The two scales are suitable for testing relations between attitudes towards gender roles and other theoretically relevant concepts, but they are not useful for comparing the level of support for gender equality across countries.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Constantin, Andreea UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Voicu, Malina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-395905
DOI:	10.1007/s11205-014-0758-8
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Indic. Res.
Volume:	123
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 733 - 752
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	DORDRECHT
ISSN:	1573-0921
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language FAMILY POLICY; EQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; IDEOLOGY; INSTITUTIONS; BELIEFS; TIME Multiple languages Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39590