Male Role Norms Inventory–Short Form (MRNI-SF): Development, confirmatory factor analytic investigation of structure, and measurement invariance across gender.
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The current study reports the development from the Male Role Norms Inventory-Revised (MRNI-R; Levant, Rankin, Williams, Hasan, & Smalley, 2010) of the 21-item MRNI-Short Form (MRNI-SF). Confirmatory factor analysis of MRNI-SF responses from a sample of 1,017 undergraduate participants (549 men, 468 women) indicated that the best fitting "bifactor" model incorporated the hypothesized 7-factor structure while explicitly modeling an additional, general traditional masculinity ideology factor. Specifically, each item-level indicator loaded on 2 factors: a general traditional masculinity ideology factor and a specific factor corresponding to 1 of the 7 hypothesized traditional masculinity ideology norms. The bifactor model was assessed for measurement invariance across gender groups, with findings of full configural invariance and partial metric invariance, such that factor loadings were equivalent across the gender groups for the 7 specific factors but not for the general traditional masculinity ideology factor. Theoretical explanations for this latter result include the potential that men's sense of self or identity may be engaged when responding to questions asking to what extent they agree or disagree with normative statements about their behavior, a possibility that could be investigated in future research by examining the associations of the general and specific factors with measures of masculine identity. Additional exploratory invariance analyses demonstrated latent mean differences between men and women on 4 of the 8 factors, and equivocal results for invariance of item intercepts, item uniquenesses, and factor variances-covariances.
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The MRNI-SF has sound psychometric properties, with subscale alphas ranging from 0.79 to 0.90.
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- Authors
- Levant, R. F., Hall, R. J., & Rankin, T. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Akron (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Counseling Psychology
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 228-238
- ISSN
- 0022-0167 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2168
- OpenAlex
- W2056479147
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 21.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Counseling Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- traditional masculinity ideology, masculine norms, gender differences, measurement invariance, bifactor model, scale development, male identity, gender role attitudes
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Social Identification, Social Values, Students, Midwestern United States, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult
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