The Aging Men’s Masculinity Ideologies Inventory (AMMII): Dimensionality, variance composition, measurement invariance by gender, and validity.

IF 2.7 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Psychology of Men & Masculinities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1037/MEN0000208

R. Levant, Britney A. Webster, J. Stanley, E. Thompson

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Abstract

Extant measures of masculinity ideologies assumed masculinities are ageless, were developed with only younger men in mind, and were validated primarily using college-aged adults. The present study reports the development and evaluation of a measure of the masculinity ideologies relevant to the lives of aging men, using a sample (N = 1184) of adult men and women (ages 3195), the Aging Men’s Masculinity Ideologies Inventory (AMMII). An exploratory factor analysis on a randomly selected part of the data revealed a 15-item 5-factor scale, which was supported with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the balance of the data. An analysis of variance composition through a series of CFA’s found that the common (correlated) factors model fit the data best, which suggests that the subscale scores of distinct masculinity ideologies can be used in research, but it would not be advisable to calculate a total scale score to represent a general later-life masculinity ideology. The AMMII demonstrated configural and metric invariance between men and women for the five later life masculinity standards, which indicates that mature and aging women and men share similar beliefs about what is expected of men’s later life gender practices. Finding convergent construct evidence for the validity four of the AMMII factors encourages use of this short multidimensional scale. The results are discussed in terms of limitations and implications for research and practice.

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老年男性男子气概意识量表(AMMII):维度、方差组成、性别不变性和效度。

现有的男性气概意识形态的衡量标准假设男性气概是永恒的，只考虑年轻男性，主要是用大学年龄的成年人来验证的。本研究报告了与老年男性生活相关的男子气概意识形态的发展和评估，使用样本(N = 1184)成年男性和女性(3195)，即老年男性男子气概意识形态清单(AMMII)。对随机选取的部分数据进行探索性因子分析，得出15项5因子量表，并利用数据的平衡进行验证性因子分析(CFA)。通过一系列的CFA分析方差构成发现，共同(相关)因素模型与数据拟合最好，这表明不同的男子气概意识形态的子量表得分可以用于研究，但不建议计算总量表得分来代表一般的晚年男子气概意识形态。AMMII证明了男性和女性在五种晚年男性气质标准上的结构和度量不变性，这表明成熟和老年女性和男性对男性晚年性别实践的期望有着相似的信念。为四个AMMII因素的有效性找到收敛的构造证据，鼓励使用这个短的多维尺度。讨论了研究结果的局限性和对研究和实践的启示。

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Psychology of Men & Masculinities PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： Psychology of Men & Masculinity is devoted to the dissemination of research, theory, and clinical scholarship that advances the psychology of men and masculinity. This discipline is defined broadly as the study of how boys" and men"s psychology is influenced and shaped by both sex and gender, and encompasses both the study of biological sex differences and similarities as well as of the social construction of gender. We are interested in work that arises from applied fields, such as clinical, counseling, and school psychology, and foundational areas such as social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, and the study of emotions. We welcome research using diverse methodologies, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches.