Development and evaluation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale Short Form (GRCS-SF)

Psychology of Men and Masculinity

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-210

  Wester, Stephen R ^a   Vogel, David L ^b   O'Neil, James M ^c   Danforth, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analyses; Gender Role Conflict; Short form; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874412999     PISSN: 15249220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025550     Document Type: Article

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