Egalitarian sex role attitudes among Japanese human service professionals: confirmatory factor analytic study.
The psychometric properties of the short form of the Scale of Egalitarian Sex Role Attitudes (SESRA-S) were studied among human service professionals. An exploratory factor analysis yielded two factors interpreted as reflecting women's rights (e.g. women at home and men at work [a reverse item]) and women's independence (e.g. working outside is equally important for women [a non-reverse item]), respectively. Confirmatory factor analysis showed a good fit. Impact of participant age, sex, residential area, and type of profession on sex role egalitarianism were examined by four-way layout anova. Men in rural areas had the lowest score in the women's rights subscale and psychiatrists in rural areas had the lowest score in the women's independence subscale.
Uji
Masayo
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Department of Clinical Behavioral Sciences (Psychological Medicine), Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan. ujimasayo@excite.co.jp
Shono
Masahiro
M
Shikai
Noriko
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Hiramura
Hidetoshi
H
Kitamura
Toshinori
T
D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006281:Health Occupations; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014933:Women's Rights