Ambivalent-sexistische Einstellungen gegenüber Männern - ASEM

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Credits:
Millisecond thanks Dr. Gernot von Collani for his assistance with this script!

Created: January 09, 2017

Last Modified: January 25, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements a computerized version of the 'Ambivalent-sexistische Einstellungen gegenüber Männern (ASEM)' questionnaire as described in Collani & Werner (2014).

References

Collani, G. & Werner, R. (2014). Ambivalent - sexistische Einstellungen gegenüber Männern (ASEM). In: D. Danner & A. Glöckner-Rist (Eds.), Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen. doi: 10.6102/zis215

https://zis.gesis.org/skala/von%20Collani-Werner-Ambivalent-sexistische-Einstellungen-gegen%C3%BCber-M%C3%A4nnern-(ASEM)

https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/receive/dbbs_mods_00001530

https://publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/digibib_derivate_00001530/Document.pdf

Duration

3 minutes

Description

20 6-point Likert questions on 'ambivalent sexist attitudes towards men'. Question 1-10 score on subscale "hostility", questions11-10 score on subscale "benevolence"

The questions can be run with short-item phrasing (default setting) or longer item phrasings (contain more details)

Collani & Werner (2014) provided the original questions with a scale ranging from -3 to +3 (excluding 0) but transformed the responses to a 1-7 (excluding 4) scale for data analysis purposes. This script does not explicitly mention the original '-3 to +3' scale to participants and simply provides the anchors for each individual question instead. The responses are coded with the scale 1-7 (excluding 4) in the data files.

Procedure

20 6-point Likert questions on 'ambivalent sexist attitudes towards men'.
Question 1-10 score on subscale "hostility",
questions11-10 score on subscale "benevolence"

The questions can be run with short-item phrasing (default setting) or longer item phrasings (contain more details)

Subscales:
- H: hostility - Hostilität (questions 1-10)
- B: benevolence - Benevolenz (questions 11-20)

Further Sub Categories:
- P: Paternalismus (q1-q3)
- M: Maternalismus (q11-13)
- GD: Geschlechterdifferenzierung (q4-q6, q14-q16)
- SH = sexuelle Hostilität (q7-q10)
- SI = sexuelle Intimität (q17-q20)


Scoring:
Collani & Werner (2014) provided the original questions with a scale ranging from -3 to +3 (excluding 0) but transformed the responses
to a 1-7 (excluding 4) scale for data analysis purposes. This script does not explicitly mention the original '-3 to +3'
scale to participants and simply provides the anchors for each individual question instead. The responses are coded with the
scale 1-7 (excluding 4) in the data files.

1= 'lehne vollkommen ab' to 7 ='stimme vollkommen zu'

Instructions

are based on originals by Collani, G. & Werner, R. (2014)

Summary Data

File Name: asem_german_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant)

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
runShortVersion True (1): runs the short item phrases (default)
false (0): runs the long item phrases
hostility The subscale total for 'hostility' (Hostilität) Min: 10 - Max: 70 (scale: 1-7, excluding 4)
benevolence The subscale total for 'benevolence' (Benevolenz) Min: 10 - Max: 70 (scale: 1-7, excluding 4)
asemTotal The sum of the subscale totals Min: 20 - Max: 140
zHostility Z-score of hostility score (using mean and standard deviation reported by Collani, G. & Werner, R. (2014)
zBenevolence Z-score of benevolence score (using mean and standard deviation reported by Collani, G. & Werner, R. (2014)
zASEM Z-score of ASEM total score (using mean and standard deviation reported by Collani, G. & Werner, R. (2014)
pHostility Percentile score of hostility score
pBenevolence Percentile score of benevolence score
pASEM Percentile score of ASEM total score

Raw Data

File Name: asem_german.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject Participant ID
group Group number
session Session number
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: 1 (lehne vollkommen ab) - 7 (stimme vollkommen zu); no 4 is used in this scale
no reversed scored questions
q*_latency How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular
question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
pageInstructions Contain the general instructions on each survey page
runShortVersion True (1): runs the short item phrases (default)
false (0): runs the long item phrases
true