The Measurement of Role Identity

1977/06/01 by Peter J. Burke, Judy C. Tully, Judy Corder Tully · 336 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Differential (mechanical device) #Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy #Engineering #Gender Studies in Language #Identity (music) #Mathematics #Psychology #Sample (material) #Semantic differential #Social psychology #Statistic #Statistics #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

paper · doi:10.2307/2577560

published in Social Forces 55(4), 881 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

This paper outlines a procedure for measuring those components of the self-concept called role/identities. Conceptualized from a symbolic interaction framework and using the semantic differential and discriminant analysis, this procedure overcomes many of the problems usually asociated with other procedures such as profile analysis, the d statistic, or the TST: the procedure provides substantive anchor points, incorporates the multidimensional nature of role/identity, and provides a numerical score for quantitative analysis. The method is illustrated by measuring the gender role/identity of a sample of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade school children. The validity of the resulting measures are checked by investigating certain of the children's characteristics.

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