Hungarian Validation of Two gender Role Questionnaires: The Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale and the Femininity Ideology Scale

Abstract

Gender roles that men and women perform are largely dependent on a given society’s social system as well as the expectations of its members. There are several questionnaires available in the literature that measure individuals’ endorsement of the roles generally expected of their sex and how their behavior enacts ideologies of gender. However, their validity is limited to a narrow geographical and temporal scope. Therefore, our aim was to develop gender role questionnaires that can be used in current Hungarian research by adapting two existing measurement tools to a Hungarian sample. Using online data, we developed the Hungarian versions of the Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale and the Femininity Ideology Scale using principal component analyses. Both questionnaires consist of several subscales with adequate reliability coefficients. The combined use of the two measurements provides a reliable way of measuring the relationship between masculinity and femininity ideology.