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A short (25-item) version of the Spence-Helmreich (1972) Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS) is presented. Correlations between scores on the short and the full (55-item) version for groups of male and female students and groups of their parents were.95 or above. The results of a factor analysis and part-whole correlations also indicated the similarity of the two forms. Normative data for the student and parent samples are described.
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The research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF GS-38144X), Janet T. Spence, Principal Investigator, and by the Office of Naval Research (Contract N 00014-67A-0126-0001, NR 171-804), Robert Helmreich, Principal Investigator.
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Spence, J.T., Helmreich, R. & Stapp, J. A short version of the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS). Bull. Psychon. Soc. 2, 219–220 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329252
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