The Bias in Attitudes Survey (BIAS) is a recently devised scale which assesses attitudes and beliefs about sex roles. This study was concerned with the factorial validity of the BIAS. The results suggested that the BIAS in relation to other sex-role scales is measuring more complete and complex attitudes toward sex roles. Two factors, which explained 68% of the variance, represented both the traditional view of male/female roles and a more liberal, non-sexist view. The analysis of the male/female subgroups demonstrated a lack of parallelism in the factor structure of the scale for the two sexes.
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