AMBIVALENT SEXISM INVENTORY
Relationships Between Men and Women
Below is a series of statements concerning men and
women and their relationships in contemporary soci-
ety. Please indicate the degree to which you agree or
disagree with each statement using the following
scale:
0/C0disagree strongly ;1/C0disagree somewhat ;2/C0
disagree slightly ;3/C0agree slightly ;4/C0agree somewhat ;
5/C0agree strongly .
B(1) 1. No matter how accomplished he is, a man is
not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of
a woman.
H 2. Many women are actually seeking special favors,
such as hiring policies that favor them over men, under
the guise of asking for ‘equality’.
B(P)* 3. In a disaster, women ought not necessarily to
be rescued before men.
H 4. Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts
as being sexist.
H 5. Women are too easily offended.
B(I)* 6. People are often truly happy in life without
being romantically involved with a member of the other
sex.
H* 7. Feminists are not seeking for women to have
more power than men.
B(G) 8. Many women have a quality of purity that
few men possess.
B(P) 9. Women should be cherished and protected by
men.
H 10. Most women fail to appreciate fully all that
men do for them.
H 11. Women seek to gain power by getting control
over men.
B(I) 12. Every man ought to have a woman whom he
adores.
B(I) 13. Men are complete without women.
H 14. Women exaggerate problems they have at
work.
H 15. Once a woman gets a man to commit to her,
she usually tries to put him on a tight leash.H 16. When women lose to men in a fair competition,
they typically complain about being discriminated
against.
B(P) 17. A good woman should be set on a pedestal
by her man.
H* 18. There are actually very few women who get a
kick out of teasing men by seeming sexually available
and then refusing male advances.
B(G) 19. Women, compared to men, tend to have
superior moral sensibility.
B(P) 20. Men should be willing to sacrifice their own
wellbeing in order to provide financially for the women
in their lives.
H* 21. Feminists are making entirely reasonable
demands of men.
B(G) 22. Women, as compared to men, tend to have a
more refined sense of culture and good taste.
Notes :
*Reverse scored item.
H5Hostile Sexism, B 5Benevolent Sexism, (P) 5
Protective Paternalism, (G) 5 Complementary
Gender Differentiation, (I) 5Heterosexual Intimacy.
Copyright 1995 by Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske.
Use of this scale requires permission of one of the
authors. A Spanish-language version of the ASI is
available from the authors.
Scoring Instructions: The ASI may be used as an
overall measure of sexism, with hostile and benevolent
components equally weighted, by simply averaging the
score for all items after reversing the items listed below.
The two ASI subscales (Hostile Sexism and Benevolent
Sexism) may also be calculated separately. For correla-
tional research, purer measures of HS and BS can be
obtained by using partial correlations (so that the effects
of the correlation between the scales is removed).
Reverse the following items (0 /C05, 1/C04, 2/C03, 3/C0
2, 4/C01, 5/C00): 3, 6, 7, 13, 18, 21.
Hostile Sexism Score 5average the following items:
2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21.
Benevolent Sexism Score 5average the following
items: 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 22.
Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA)
(Fraboni et al., 1990 ).
Variable
The FSA is an individual-difference measure of prejudiced attitudes toward older people. It was designed to
measure the affective components of age-based bias, in addition to the cognitive biases covered by then-existing
ageism measures.707 OVERVIEW OF THE MEASURES
VI. SOCIOCULTURAL INTERACTION AND CONFLICT