Development and evaluation of a new short form of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI-30).

ABSTRACT: The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) has been an important tool in researching masculinity. With the original measure at 94 items (Mahalik et al., 2003), there have been several abbreviated forms developed from 11 to 55 items. However, in confirmatory factor analyses (CFA's) testing 13 common factors, bifactor, hierarchical, and unidimensional models, only 4 models demonstrated adequate fit to the data, and most of these were for the still quite long 46-item version. As a result, there was no psychometrically strong truly short form of the CMNI. In the present study, data from 1561 community and university men were used to develop a short form. First an exploratory factor analysis using a portion of the data was conducted, which resulted in a 10-subscale dimensionality, follo

SUBMITTER: Levant RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature