The ambivalence toward men inventory - Differentiating hostile and benevolent beliefs about men

We present a measure, the Ambivalence toward Men inventory (AMI), that diff erentiates between women's hostile and benevolent prejudices and stereotype s about men. The Hostility toward Men (HM) and Benevolence toward Men (BM) subscales of the AMI tap conventional attitudes toward men that have opposi ng valences. Each subscale assesses subfactors concerning men's power, gend er differentiation, and heterosexuality. Three studies with predominately W hite, male and female participants (two with undergraduates and one with a community sample) establish the factor structure, reliability, convergent v alidity, and predictive validity of the AMI. The AMI was strongly related t o its sister scale, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996) a nd to two established scales of attitudes reward men (Downs & Engleson, 198 2; lazzo, 1983). Only the AMI, however, successfully distinguished between subjectively positive and subjectively negative beliefs about men. A copy o f the 20-item AMI is provided as a tool for further exploration of women's ambivalence toward men.