asi: Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI)
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Responses from 261 undergraduates to Glick and Fiske's (1996) Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Collected during the fall 1998 and spring 1999 semesters at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The response scale ranged from 1 to 7 with 1 indicating “Strongly Disagree” and 7 indicating “Strongly Agree”.

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A data frame with 261 observations on the following 25 variables.

Subj: A factor providing a unique identification number for each subject
Age: Respondent's age in years
bss01: No matter how accomplished he is, a man is not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of a woman.
bss02: In a disaster, women ought not necessarily to be rescued before men.
bss03: People are often truly happy in life without being romantically involved with a member of the other sex.
bss04: Many women have a quality of purity that few men possess.
bss05: Women should be cherished and protected by men.
bss06: Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores.
bss07: Men are complete without women.
bss08: A good woman should be set on a pedestal by her man.
bss09: Women, compared to men, tend to have a superior moral sensibility.
bss10: Men should be willing to sacrifice their own well being in order to provide financially for the women in their lives.
bss11: Women, as compared to men, tend to have a more refined sense of culture and good taste.
hss01: Women are too easily offended.
hss02: Many women are actually seeking special favors, such as hiring policies that favor them over men, under the guise of asking for “equality”.
hss03: Feminists are making entirely reasonable demands of men.
hss04: Most women fail to appreciate fully all that men do for them.
hss05: When women lose to men in fair competition, they typically complain about being discriminated against.
hss06: Feminists are not seeking for women to have more power than men.
hss07: Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist.
hss08: Once a woman gets a man to commit to her, she usually tries to put him on a tight leash.
hss09: There are actually very few women who get a kick out of teasing men by seeming sexually available and then refusing male advances.
hss10: Women exaggerate problems they have at work.
hss11: Women seek to gain power by getting control over men.
Sex: A factor representing sex of respondent, with levels F and M

BSS items 2, 3, and 7 are con-trait items, phrased in the reverse. HSS items 3, 6, and 9 are also con-trait items. These items should be reverse-scored before computing a mean.

Altermatt, T. W. (2001). Chivalry: The relation between a cultural script and stereotypes about women. (Doctoral Dissertation). Available online at http://vault.hanover.edu/~altermattw/research/assets/AltermattDissertation.pdf

Glick, P., & Fiske, S. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 491-512.