Abstract
The present exploratory study examined the psychometric properties of the O'Kelly Women's Belief Scales (O'Kelly, 2011) an instrument that measures women, s irrational beliefs about traditional feminine sex role stereotypes, in a multi-cultural sample of 1644 women born and living in the US, India, Colombia, and Mexico. A varimax rotation with cutoff eigenvalues of 3, showed that 43 items loaded into 5 components which accounted for 38.43% of the variance of this multinational version. The items were subsequently grouped into: Irrationality, with a total of 24 items and Rationality, with the 13 items. Analyses indicated a Cronbach's alpha from .72 to .88. Results indicate that this version of the instrument may be used to evaluate both the rational and irrational content of sex-role beliefs of women born in the US, India, Colombia, and Mexico.
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