An Adaptation of the Gender Role Conflict Scale for Adolescents

Psychometric Issues and Correlates With Psychological Distress

Blazina, Christopher
Pisecco, Stewart
O'Neil, James M.

¹Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston
²School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut.

³Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christopher Blazina, Department of Psychology, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37209-2920. E-mail: [email protected].

For additional information about men's gender-role conflict, readers may visit the Gender Role Conflict Research Program Web site, www.familystudies.uconn.edu/oneil.htm

Received Date: September 25, 2003; Revised Date: January 22, 2004; Accepted Date: March 23, 2004

Psychology of Men & Masculinity 6(1):p 39-45, January 2005.

This study reports the development of the Gender Role Conflict Scale—Adolescent Version (GRCS-A), which was based on the adult measure developed by . Results suggested that the GRCS-A is a psychometrically robust instrument that positively correlated with self-reports of psychological distress, as measured by the Conners-Wells' Adolescent Self-Report Scale. The GRCS-A was also significantly correlated with the Male Role Attitude Scale, which is a measure of traditional male ideology, and the GRCS-Adult Version. Although the GRCS-A parallels the adult measure in many ways, there are meaningful distinctions that suggest that gender-role conflicted adolescents struggle with different issues than their adult counterparts.