The Japanese Journal of Psychology 1994, Vol. 64, No. 6, 417-425 Cognition-correlation indices of gender schema: Tests of validity Eiko Ishida (Department of Business Administration, Bunkyo Women's College, Ohimachi, Iruma-gun, Saitama 356) Four-hundred and seventy-seven subjects evaluated a set of traits and behaviors in terms of how masculine and feminine they were and in terms of how well they represented their real and ideal self-images. Within-individual correlation coefficients between these evaluations were proposed as measures of psychological gender schemata, because they would represent the degree of matching between the subjects' gender-images and ideal/real self-images of gender-related attributes. The present study aims at examining the construct validity of these measures, by testing them to psychological variables that are known to reflect gender identity. The individual differece variables used as criteria were (a) satisfaction with one's own sex, (b) general happiness, (c) self-esteem, (d) gender-conflict, and (e) school and occupational achievement need. Correlations between the gender-schema indices and the criteria variables supported the construct validity of those measures. Advantages of the present measurement over the conventional simple trait approach, such as PSRT, or PAQ are discussed. Key words: gender-identity, sex-role, achievement need, happiness, self-esteem.
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