Ambivalence Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996)

• Populations: adolescents; young adults
• Age ranges: 16-21
• Languages: Norwegian, English
• Countries: Norway; United States

Items

Full ASI:

• No matter how accomplished he is, a man is not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of a woman. (B[I])
• Many women are actually seeking special favors, such as hiring policies that favor them over men, under the guise of asking for equality. (H)
• In a disaster, women ought not necessarily to be rescued before men. (B[P])*
• Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist (H)
• Women are too easily offended. (H)
• People are often truly happy in life without being romantically involved with a member of the other sex. (B[I])*
• Feminists are not seeking for women to have more power than men. (H)*
• Many women have a quality of purity that few men possess. (B[G])
• Women should be cherished and protected by men. (B[P])
• Most women fail to appreciate fully all that men do for them. (H)
• Women seek to gain power by getting control over men. (H)
• Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores. (B[I])
• Men are complete without women. (B[I])*
• Women exaggerate problems they have at work. (H)
• Once a woman gets a man to commit to her, she usually tries to put him on a tight leash. (H)
• When women lose to men in a fair competition, they typically complain about being discriminated against. (H)
• A good woman should be set on a pedestal by her man. (B[P])
• There are actually very few women who get a kick out of teasing men by seeming sexually available and then refusing male advances. (H)*
• Women, compared to men, tend to have a superior moral sensibility. (B[G])
• Men should be willing to sacrifice their own well being in order to provide financially for the women in their lives. (B[P])
• Feminists are making entirely reasonable demands of men. (H)*
• Women, as compared to men, tend to have a more refined sense of culture and good taste. (B[G])

“Note: Copyright 1995 by Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske. Use of this scale requires permission of one ofthe authors. A Spanish-language version of the ASI is available from the authors. H = Hostile Sexism, B = Benevolent Sexism, (P) = Protective Paternalism, (G) = Complementary Gender Differentiation, (I) = Heterosexual Intimacy, * = reversescored item.”  (Glick & Fiske, 1996)

Norwegian short form ASI (Bendixen & Kennair, 2017)

• Many women are actually seeking special favors, such as hiring policies that favor them over men, under the guise of asking for “equality”
• Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist
• Women seek to gain power by getting control over men
• When women lose to men in a fair competition, they typically complain about being discriminated against 0.67
• No matter how accomplished he is, a man is not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of a woman
• Women should be cherished and protected by men
• Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores
• Men should be willing to sacrifice their own well being in order to provide financially for the women in their lives

All items rated on 0-5 Likert scale, 0 = Disagree strongly, 5 = Agree strongly

Scoring

“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 correlational 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 = 5, 1 = 4,2 = 3, 3 = 2,4 = 1, 5 = 0): 3, 6,7,13,18,21.

Hostile Sexism Score = average of the following items: 2,4, 5,7,10, 11, 14,15,16,18,21.

Benevolent Sexism Score = average of the following items: 1, 3,6, 8, 9, 12,13,17,19,20,22.” (Glick & Fiske, 1996)

Citations

• Glick, P. & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The Ambivalence Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of Personality
  and Social Psychology, 70(3),  491–512.  https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-03014-006. 
• Bendixen, M., & Kennair, L. E. O. (2017). When less is more: Psychometric properties of Norwegian short‐forms of the Ambivalent Sexism Scales ( ASI and AMI ) and the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance ( IRMA ) Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 58(6), 541–550. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28983927/ 
• Coker, A. L., Bush, H. M., Brancato, C., Huang, Z., Clear, E. R., & Follingstad, D. R. (2022). A methodology report for the Life’s snapshot cohort study to investigate the long-term efficacy of a violence intervention. Violence Against Women, 28(1), 316-344. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33656939/