Athenstaedt: Gender Role Self Concept data from Athenstaedt (2003)
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Athenstaedt

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Gender Role Self Concept data from Athenstaedt (2003)

Description

Athenstaedt (2003) examined Gender Role Self-Concept. She reports two independent dimensions of Male and Female behaviors. While there are large gender/sex differences on both of these dimensions, the two represent independent factorsl Eagly and Revelle (2022) have used these data to explore the power of aggregation when examining sex differences. This data set is also useful to show various graphical display procedures.

Usage

data("Athenstaedt")

Format

A data frame with 576 observations on the following 117 variables.

STUDIE: a numeric vector
gender: Male =1, Female= 2
V1 - V74: self report items (see Athenstaedt.dictionary)
V1: Gender (Male = 1, Female =2)
V2: To pay attention to ones appearance in the office
V3: Offer fire to somebody
V4: Paint an Apartment
V5: Mow the Lawn
V6: Make the Bed
V7: Hold the Door Open for your Partner
V8: Do the Dishes
V9: Do Extreme Sports
V10: Tinker with the Car
V11: Talk about Sports
V12: Assemble Prefabricated Furniture
V13: Drive a Car in a Risky Way
V14: Listen Attentively to Others
V15: Tell your Partner about Problems at Work
V16: Play on a Computer
V17: Set the Table
V18: Watch ones Weight
V19: Care for a Partner if he/she is Ill
V20: Play Chess
V21: Meet with friends at a Regulars Table
V22: Watch Soap Operas
V23: Take a Friends Arm
V24: Wrap Presents Beautifully
V25: In case of Vacation with Partner Packing the Luggage for Both
V26: To admit own Occupational Weekness
V27: Work Overtime
V28: Openly Show Vulnerability
V29: Babysit
V30: Change Fuses
V31: Clean a Drain
V32: Take Care of Somebody
V33: Do Repair Work
V34: Change Light Bulbs
V35: Wash the Car
V36: Ride a Motorcycle
V37: Cook Meat on the Grill
V38: Thump Carpets
V39: Dust the Furniture
V40: Buy Electric Appliances
V41: Go Dancing
V42: Go for a Walk through Town
V43: Go to the Ballet
V44: Hug a Friend
V45: Do Handiwork (e.g. Knitting)
V46: Change Bed Sheets
V47: Sew on a Button
V48: Do Aerobics
V49: Watch Sports on Television
V50: Talk about Problems
V51: Play Parlor Games
V52: Talk about Politics
V53: Take Care of Flowers
V54: Make Coffee in the Office
V55: Shovel Snow
V56: Read non-Fiction Books
V57: Organize Company Parties
V58: Do Home Improvement Jobs
V59: Plead for the Socially Disadvantaged
V60: Buy a Present for a Colleague
V61: To Talk with Colleagues about Family Matters
V62: Make Jam
V63: Frquently Ask Colleagues Questions
V64: Decorate the Office with Flowers
V65: Pick up the Dinner Bill
V66: Shop for the Family
V67: Have Problem using Technical Devices
V68: Care for Family Besides a Job
V69: Watch Action Movies
V70: Cook
V71: Help your Partner Put on His or Her Coat
V72: Wash Windows
V73: Do the Ironing
V74: Do the Laundry
V75: Put on Make-up
V76: Femininity Scale
V77: Masculinity Scale
V78: Femininity Scale
V79: Masculinity Scale
V80: Pooled Scale
MMINUS1 - MPLUS: see the original Athenstaedt paper
FBEHAV: a numeric vector
MBEHAV: a numeric vector
Femininity: a numeric vector
Masculinity: a numeric vector
MF: a numeric vector

Details

Ursala Athenstaedt (2003) reported several analyses of items and scales measuring Gender Role Self-Concept. Eagly and Revelle (2022) have used these data in an analysis of the power of aggregation. Here are the original items as well as the three scales Eagly and Revelle (2022). The accompanying Athenstaedt.dictionary may be used to see the items.

See the GERAS data set for a related example.

Source

Ursala Athenstaedt, personal communication, 2022, provided a SPSS sav file with the original data from which the complete cases in this set were selected.

References

Ursula Athenstaedt (2003) On the Content and Structure of the Gender Role Self-Concept: Including Gender-Stereotypical Behaviors in Addition to Traits. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27, 309-318. doi: 10.1111/1471-6402.00111.

Alice Eagly and William Revelle (2022) Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees. Perspectives in Psychological Science doi:10.1177/17456916211046006.

Examples

data(Athenstaedt)
psych::scatterHist(Femininity ~ Masculinity + gender, data =Athenstaedt,
cex.point=.4,smooth=FALSE, correl=FALSE,d.arrow=TRUE,col=c("red","blue"),
   lwd=4,  cex.main=1.5,main="Scatter Plot and Density",cex.axis=2)
   
psych::cohen.d(Athenstaedt[2:76], group="gender", dictionary=Athenstaedt.dictionary)
#show the top 5 items for each scale
select <- c(psych::selectFromKeys(Athenstaedt.keys$MF10),"gender")
psych::corPlot(Athenstaedt[,select], main="F and M items from Athenstaedt")

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