Spanish Adaptation of the Prasad-Baron Questionnaire

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology grade: 10.0 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona language: English abstract: Gender ideology plays an important role in human behaviour and therefore its assessment not only in particular areas but considering a wide variety of situations concerning both public and private life is necessary. This study presents the Spanish version of the questionnaire developed in 1996 by Prasad and Baron a tool for measuring gender-role cognitions and analyses its psychometric properties in a sample of 233 Spanish undergraduate students. The questionnaire showed a 3-dimension structure -Equality Belief and Principles- which coincided partially with the theoretical original one. Excellent reliability (Cronbach) results of over .90 were found. Concurrent validity assessed with a measure of conservatism (E: r = -.253 p < .001; B: r = -.421 p < .001; P: r = -.123 p = .061) and with self-defined identification with feminism (E: F(2 232) = 4.04p=.019); B: F (2 232) = 12.71p< .001; P: F (2 232) = 13.05p< .001) was satisfactory. Scores in all dimensions differed by gender. This study reveals satisfactory psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Prasad-Baron questionnaire making it an appropriate tool to obtain a complete assessment of gender ideology.