CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF THE GENDER ATTITUDE INVENTORY, A STRUCTURED INVENTORY TO ASSESS MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF GENDER ATTITUDES

Three studies describe the development and initial validation of the G ender Attitude Inventory (GAI), a structured inventory that assesses a ttitudes toward the multiple objects that organize college students' t houghts and feelings about sex and gender An intergroup relations pers pective was used to specify the universe of gender-related targets and to construct a preliminary instrument. Factor analyses of the results of two sequential studies yielded a 109-item inventory with 14 conten t-specific attitude areas and three second-order factors. In Study 3 G AI scales were shown to have acceptable internal consistency and tempo ral stability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity rn term s of race/ethnicity, most respondents were white (ranging from 69% to 82% across the three studies).