Development of a Spatial Activity Questionnaire I: Items identification
Document Type
Article - Merrimack Access Only
Publication Title
Sex Roles
Publication Date
1-2010
Abstract/ Summary
The present study aimed to develop an empiricallyderived spatial activities questionnaire that would include gendered and neutral, as well as spatial and non-spatial activities. A total of 496 participants from Canada and the U.S. indicated how often they participated in 138 specific activities during their childhood. Exploratory factor analysis complemented by a multivariate analysis of variance resulted in eleven factors reflecting masculine-spatial; masculinenon- spatial; feminine-spatial; feminine-non-spatial and neutral-spatial components. Further item reduction resulted in a 27-item spatial activities questionnaire representing masculine spatial, masculine non-spatial, feminine spatial, and feminine non-spatial activities. This research constitutes the first step in the process of identifying a small set of activities that are clearly distinct in terms of their spatial nature and gender-typing.
Repository Citation
Cherney, I. D.,
&
Voyer, D.
(2010). Development of a Spatial Activity Questionnaire I: Items identification. Sex Roles, 62(1-2), 89-99.
Available at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/soe_facpub/56
