NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF GENDER-ROLE ATTITUDES - A CLUSTER ANALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF MASCULINITY IDEOLOGIES

This article presents a new application of cluster analytic methodolog y to the study of gender role attitudes. We developed a preliminary ty pology of men's profiles of masculinity ideology in a sample of 217 up per-level undergraduates stratified across all academic divisions at a large, public university in the midwest. Based on cluster analyses of four dimensions of masculinity ideology, five patterns of endorsement were identified. Moderately Traditional, High Status/Low Violence, No ntraditional, High Violence/Moderately Traditional, and Traditional. P reliminary validity of this cluster solution was demonstrated by signi ficant differences by cluster in gender role egalitarianism.