Gender Identity (Egan, 1999)

• Populations: Children, Adolescents
• Age ranges: Average Age 11 years, 9 Months
• Languages: English
• Countries: United States

Items

Subscales

• Goodness of fit, 12 Items
• Felt Pressure, 14 Items
• Intergroup Bias, 8 Items

Items by subscale

Goodness-of-fit

• Some girls like being a girl BUT other girls don’t like being a girl.*
• Some girls feel annoyed that they’re supposed to do some things just because they’re a girl BUT Other girls never feel...
• Some girls don’t feel they’re just like all the other girls their age BUT Other girls do feel...
• Some girls never feel cheated that there are some things they’ re not supposed to do just because they’re a girl BUT Other girls do feel...*
• Some girls don ‘t feel they fit in with other girls BUT Other girls do feel...
• Some girls think they are a good example of being a girl BUT Other girls don’t think...*
• Some girls wish it’d be okay for them to do some of the things that usually only boys do BUT Other girls never wish ...
•  Some girls sometimes think it might be more fun to be a boy BUT Other girls never think...
• Some girls don ‘t feel that the things they like to do in their spare time as similar to what most girls like to do in their spare time BUT Other girls do feel...
• Some girls feel that the kinds of things they’re good at are similar to what most girls are good at BUT Other girls don’t feel...*
• Some girls don’t think it’ s fair that some things are only for boys BUT Other girls don’t mind that ...
• Some girls don’t feel that their personality is similar to most girls’ personalities BUT Other girls do feel...

Felt Pressure 

• Some girls don’t think it’s important to act just like other girls BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls think the girls they know would be upset if they wanted to play with boys’ toys BUT Other girls don’t think...*
• Some girls think their parents would be upset if they wanted to learn an activity that only boys usually do BUT Other girls don’t think...*
• Some girls don’t think their parents would be upset if they wanted to learn how to fish or hunt (on boys’ form: wanted to learn how to knit or sew) BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls get really mad if someone says they’ re acting like a boy BUT Other girls don’t...*
• Some girls don’t think other girls would be upset if they wanted to learn an activity that only boys usually do BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls don’t think other girls would be upset if they wanted to play or talk with boys BUT Others do think...
• Some girls don’t think other girls would be upset if they wanted to learn how to fish or hunt (on boys’ form: wanted to learn how to knit or sew) BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls don’t think their parents would mind if they wanted to learn how to fix cars and bicycles (on boys’ form: wanted to take ballet or baton twirling lessons) BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls don’t really care if they are like the other girls they know BUT Other girls really want to be like...
• Some girls don’t think their parents would be upset if they wanted to play or talk with boys BUT Other girls do think...
• Some girls think their parents would be upset if they wanted to play with boys’ toys BUT Other girls don’t think...*
• Some girls think the girls they know would mind if they wanted to learn how to fix cars and bicycles (on boys’ form: wanted to take ballet or baton twirlng lessons) BUT Other girls don’t think...*
• Some girls try hard to do all the things girls are supposed to do BUT Other girls don’t...*

Intergroup Bias 

• Some girls don’t think that girls are more truthful than boys BUT Other girls...
• Some girls think that girls are more boring than boys BUT Other girls...
• Some girls don’t think that girls are more lazy than boys BUT Other girls...*
• Some girls don’t get upset if someone says something bad about girls BUT Other girls...
• Some girls think that boys are more annoying than girls BUT Other girls...*
• Some girls think that girls are more honest than boys BUT Other girls...*
• Some girls don’ t think that boys are more creative than girls BUT Other girls...*
• Some girls think that boys are more friendlv than girls BUT Other girls...

*Reverse coded item

Responses:

Items used a two stage response format.  Participants responsded to both assertions in each item (the assertion before the capitalized BUT and the assertion after the capitalized BUT).  All responses used the following ordinal response format:
Very true for me, Sort of true for me

Scoring

“measures were scored on a scale of 1 to 4, with higher scores reflecting higher levels of the construct. All item responses for a particular measure were averaged, resulting in scale scores that also ranged from 1 to 4.” (Egan, 1999)

Citations

Egan, S. K. (1999) Three new measures of Gender Identity: implications for children’s psychosocial development. [Doctoral Dissertation, Florida Atlantic University] ProQuest Dissertations and Theses