Reliability Of The Attitudes Toward Women Scale Aws And The Personal Attributes Questionnaire Paq

The stability and internal consistency of Spence and Helmreich's sex-role scales, the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS) and Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ), are reported. An entire first-year class of 1,007 male and 78 female cadets at the U.S. Military Academy were given a battery of psychological tests before and after cadet basic training a 2 1/2-month period. The AWS and PAQ proved to be highly reliable, comparable to other frequently used psychological tests. This psychometric information encourages researchers to make further use of these sex-role scales. (Author).