Into the Black Box: Sex and Gender in the Study on Decision-Making – An Evidence from a Slovak Sample

IF 0.4 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Human Affairs-Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI:10.1515/humaff-2022-2029

M. Adamus, Eva Ballová Mikušková

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Abstract The main goal of the paper was to obtain insights into how gender measures can be incorporated into quantitative research on risk-related behaviour. We explored relations between the measures (short versions of Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ), and Traditional Masculinity-Femininity (TMF) scale) and their explanatory power in relation to risky behaviours (Decision Outcome Inventory, DOI). The sample consisted of 470 adults (238 men). The corresponding BSRI and PAQ subscales correlated significantly, while TMF correlated positively with the femininity subscales. All the instruments demonstrated good internal consistency and the measures explained a significant portion of risky behaviour. The results suggest that, although sex is a proxy of behaviour, using a measure of the gender-related aspects of identity could enhance understanding of risk-related behaviour. Finally, men and women viewed themselves as equally masculine, indicating that gender stereotypes about desirability of agentic characteristics change.

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进入黑匣子:决策研究中的性别和社会性别——来自斯洛伐克样本的证据

摘要本文的主要目标是深入了解如何将性别衡量纳入风险相关行为的定量研究。我们探讨了这些指标（Bem性别角色量表（BSRI）、个人属性问卷（PAQ）和传统男性气质-女性气质量表（TMF）的简短版本）及其对风险行为的解释力（决策结果量表，DOI）之间的关系。样本包括470名成年人（238名男性）。相应的BSRI和PAQ分量表显著相关，而TMF与女性气质分量表呈正相关。所有工具都显示出良好的内部一致性，这些措施解释了很大一部分风险行为。研究结果表明，尽管性别是行为的代表，但对身份的性别相关方面进行衡量可以增强对风险相关行为的理解。最后，男性和女性都认为自己是同样的男性，这表明关于代理特征可取性的性别刻板印象发生了变化。

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