Three groups of women--wives with no outside employment, wives employed in non-professional occupations, and wives employed in professional occupations--were administered the Derived Identity Questionnaire and the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The two working groups revealed less "derived identity" than did the non-employed group. (Author)

The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), which conceptualizes masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions rather than using the traditional notion of a single bipolar dimension, was factor analyzed. BSRI scores from 253 male and female industrial workers, 36 police officers, and 36 nonworking housewives were analyzed. (Author)

Observed that current measures of sex role style, such as the Bem inventory, assess only positive, socially desirable attributes. A set of socially undesirable but sex-typed characteristics was developed and examined in relation to Bem Sex Role Inventory categories. (Author)

Bem's definition of psychological androgyny obscures a potentially important distinction between those individuals who score high on both masculinity and femininity and those individuals who score low on both. To assess the importance of this distinction, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory was administered to undergraduate subjects. (Author)