Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of The Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS)

Subject Areas : Educational

Mehdi Chamikarpour ¹ , Abbas Pourshahbaz ² , Behrouz Dolatshahee ³ , Nahaleh Moshtagh ⁴

1 - دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی
2 - دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی
3 - دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی
4 - دانشگاه علوم بهزیستی و توانبخشی

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2012-03-20

Keywords: Gender Role Conflict Scale, validity, Reliability,

Abstract :

  This study was planned to determine the reliability and construct validity of the Persian version of the gender role conflict scale. Statistical population of the study includes all male students of the universities of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences and Tehran University in 2010. 190 male students, ages ranging from 21 to 40 years old with educational levels from B.S to Ph.D were selected. They completed an inventory including demographic variables and Persian version of the gender role conflict scale. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS (11.5). Pearson correlation coefficients showed that the “restrictive emotionality”, among four factors of gender role conflict, had the greatest correlation with GRCS total score (P < 0.01) and “success, power and competition” had the weakest one (P < 0.01). Also, results from the present study showed that the Persian version of the gender role conflict scale and its four factors had a good reliability (with Chronbach’s alphas ranging from 0.70 to 0.81) among Iranian college students. Finally , four-factor structure of the Persian version of the gender role conflict scale was justified in the present study through confirmatory factor analysis with varimax rotation (K2=2029.147, df=666, & P=0.000).