COGNITION-CORRELATION INDEXES OF GENDER S CHEMA - TESTS OF VALIDITY

Four-hundred and seventy-seven subjects evaluated a set of traits and behaviors in terms of how masculine and feminine they were and in term s of how well they represented their real and ideal self-images. Withi n-individual correlation coefficients between these evaluations were p roposed as measures of psychological gender schemata, because they wou ld represent the degree of matching between the subjects' gender-image s and ideal/real self-images of gender-related attributes. The present study aims at examining the construct validity of these measures, by testing them to psychological variables that are known to reflect gend er identity. The individual differece variables used as criteria were (a) satisfaction with one's own sex, (b) general happiness, (c) self-e steem, (d) gender-conflict, and (e) school and occupational achievemen t need. Correlations between the gender-schema indices and the criteri a variables supported the construct validity of those measures. Advant ages of the present measurement over the conventional simple trait app roach, such as BSRI, or PAQ are discussed.