Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1999)

• Populations: adolescents; young adults; adults
• Age ranges: 16-21; 17-24; 16-86
• Languages: Norwegian, English
• Countries: Norway; United States

Items

Full AMI 

• Even if both members of a couple work, the woman ought to be more attentive to taking care of her man at home (B[M])
• A man who is sexually attracted to a woman typically has no morals about doing whatever it takes to get her in bed (H[S])
• Men are less likely to fall apart in emergencies than women are (B[G])
• When men act to “help” women, they are often trying to prove they are better than women (H[S])
• Every woman needs a male partner who will cherish her (B[S])
• Men would be lost in this world if women weren’t there to guide them (H[G])
• A woman will never be truly fulfilled in life if she doesn’t have a committed, long-term relationship with a man (B[S])
• Men act like babies when they are sick (H[G])
• Men will always fight to have greater control in society than women (H[P])
• Men are mainly useful to provide financial security for women (B[M])
• Even men who claim to be sensitive to women’s rights really want a traditional relationship at home, with the woman performing most of the housekeeping and child care (H[P])
• Every woman ought to have a man she adores (B[S])
• Men are more willing to put themselves in danger to protect others (B[G])
• Men usually try to dominate conversations when talking to women (H[S])
• Most men pay lip service to equality for women, but can’t handle having a woman as an equal (H[P])
• Women are incomplete without men (B[S])
• When it comes down to it, most men are really like children (H[G])
• Men are more willing to take risks than women (B[G])
• Most men sexually harass women, even if only in subtle ways, once they are in a position of power over them. (H[S])
• Women ought to take care of their men at home, because men would fall apart if they had to fend for themselves (B[M])

“Copyright 1996 by Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske.  Use of this scale requires permission of one of the authors.

Note: The HM subscales are indicated by the following notation: H[P] Resentment of paternalism, H[G] = Compensatory Gender Differentiation, H[S] = Heterosexual Hostility.  The BM subscales are indicated ;by the following notation: B[M] = Maternalism, B[G] = Complementary Gender Differentiation, B[S] = Heterosexual intimacy.” (Glick & Fiske, 1999)

Norwegian short form (Bendixen & Kennair, 2017)

• When men act to “help” women, they are often trying to prove they are better than women
• Most men pay lip service to equality for women but can’t handle having a woman as an equal
• When it comes down to it, most men are really like children
• Most men sexually harass women, even if only in subtle ways, once they are in a position of power over them
• Even if both members of a couple work, the woman ought to be more attentive to taking care of her man at home
• Every woman needs a male partner who will cherish her
• A woman will never be truly fulfilled in life if she doesn’t have a committed, long-term relationship with a man
• Every woman ought to have a man she adores

All items rated on 0-5 Likert Scale, 0 = disagree strongly, 5 = agree strongly

Scoring

Scoring Instructions:

Hostility toward Men (HM) score = average of the following items: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17, 19.

Benevolence toward Men (BM) score = average of the following items: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 20

Overall AMI score: Average of all items.

For correlational research, purer measures of HM and BM can be obtained by partialing each of these subscales from th;e other to control the correlation between the two subscales.  An overall AMI score can be obtained merely by averaging scores on all items (or averaging the HM and BM subscale scores).

Citations

Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1999). The Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory: Differentiating Hostile and Benevolent Beliefs About Men. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23(3), 519–536. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1999.tb00379.x

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://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12392