Preliminary Factor Analysis of the O' Kelly Women's Belief Scale in an Indian sample

The O'Kelly Women's Belief Scale (O'Kelly, in press) was originally constructed in Australia, using a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy framework, to measure sex-role beliefs that women may develop through sex-role stereotyping. Factor analysis of the 92 original items showed that 64...

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Published inSynergy (Mumbai) Vol. 8; no. 2; p. 1
Main Authors Kumar, Satishchandra, Lega, Leonor, Contreras, Arturo Heman, O'Kelly, Monica, Ramaswami, Aarti
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mumbai K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research 01.07.2010
Subjects
Agreements
Behavior modification
Cronbach's alpha
Discriminant analysis
Eigenvalues
Principal components analysis
Quantitative psychology
Questionnaires
Sex roles
Statistical analysis
Studies
Validity
Women
Australia
India
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Summary:The O'Kelly Women's Belief Scale (O'Kelly, in press) was originally constructed in Australia, using a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy framework, to measure sex-role beliefs that women may develop through sex-role stereotyping. Factor analysis of the 92 original items showed that 64 items loaded onto a single component that accounted for 18.2% of the variance in a sample of 974 Australian women. The present exploratory study examined the psychometric properties of the OWBS in a sample of 226 women born and living in India. A varimax rotation with cutoff eigenvalues of 3 showed that 25 items loaded into 4 components in the initial analysis which accounted for 48.829% of the variance. The items were subsequently grouped into one factor. Irrationality, with Cronbach's Alpha of .909. Results indicate that this version of the instrument may be used to evaluate the irrational content of sex-role beliefs of women in India. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0973-8819