title: Is sexual attraction independent of the instrumental and expressive traits?
abstract: Sexual attraction is an essential part of sex, just as the instrumental and expressive traits are the mainstay of gender. Various hypotheses concerning the dimensionality and independence versus dependence/overlapping of these core entities were tested. A group of 423 university students completed the Sexual Attraction Questionnaire (SAQ; Fernández, Quiroga, and Rodríguez, 2006) and the 12-item Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1974). Internal consistency and factor analyses (PAF) were conducted. The results support the dimensionality established for the SAQ and reveal some psychometric and conceptual weaknesses of the 12-item BSRI. The results also support the independence of the two cores: sexual attraction and the instrumental and expressive traits. The logical implications for the different viewpoints of the relations between sex and gender are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. jfernandez@psi.ucm.es
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: María Angeles
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Quiroga
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Del Olmo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D019529:Sexuality; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology