APA Dictionary of Psychology

masculinity–femininity test

Updated on 04/19/2018
any test designed to measure the degree of masculinity or femininity in participants. The earliest was the Terman–Miles Attitude–Interest Analysis Test (1938); others, usually in inventory form, are the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Guilford–Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and the Gough Femininity Scale. The Bem Sex Role Inventory is one of the few masculinity–femininity tests to include androgyny.
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