Assessing Women's Feminist Identity Development: Studies of Convergent, Discriminant, and Structural Validity

By Ann R. Fischer, D. Tokar, Marina Mergl, Glenn E. Good, M. Hill, Sasha A. Blum. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale (2007, background): “Supporting its construct validity, recent SSE scores were related positively to reported frequency of daily hassles (Klonoff & Landrine, 1995) and either unrelated or negligibly related to social desirability (Fischer et al., 2000).”
Measuring Gender: Options and Issues (2010, background): “Discriminant validity was demonstrated through nonsignificant correlations with social desirability scores (Fischer et al., 2000).”
Internalized Misogyny as a Moderator of the Link between Sexist Events and Women’s Psychological Distress (2009, background): “Passive acceptance has been found to be positively correlated with foreclosed identity ( Fischer et al. 2000 ) and psychological distress (Moradi and Subich 2002) among presumably heterosexual women.”
Mediators of the Relationship Between Internalized Oppressions and Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Psychological Distress (2008, methodology): “However, scales measuring passive acceptance (cf. Bargad & Hyde, 1991; Fischer et al., 2000) focus on assessing acceptance of traditional gender roles and/or an unawareness of sexism rather than a belief in male superiority.”
What Makes a Feminist? Predictors and Correlates of Feminist Social Identity in College Women (2001, unknown): “70 (Fischer et al., 2000).”
Predictors and Correlates of Collective Action (2004, background): “Recent researchers ( Fischer et al., 2000; Gerstmann & Kramer, 1997) have more closely examined the Feminist Identity Scale (FIS) and the Feminist Identity Development Scale (FIDS; Bargad & Hyde, 1991), the latter of which explicitly separates Active Commitment from Synthesis.”
Relations Among Dimensions of Feminism and Internalized Heterosexism in Lesbians and Bisexual Women (2004, methodology): “Feminist identity development was assessed by the Feminist Identity Composite scale (FIC; Fischer et al., 2000 ), which consists of 33 items that represent the five dimensions of feminist identity development proposed by Downing and Roush (1985).”
The Relations Among Feminist Identity Development, Gender-Role Orientation, and Psychological Well-Being in Women (2006, methodology): “The Fisher et al. (2000) study also supported the measure’s discriminant validity, and the use of structural equation modeling suggested the feminist identity subscales provided an “excellent” fit to the data (goodness of fit index = .96).”
A Concomitant Examination of the Relations of Perceived Racist and Sexist Events to Psychological Distress for African American Women (2003, methodology): “Furthermore, for a sample of 295 women (4% African American) Fischer et al. (2000) reported nonsignificant or negligible correlations between SSE scores and self-deceptive enhancement and impression management.”
Effects of Stereotypes About Feminists on Feminist Self-Identification (2007, background): “that there is a correlation between feminist identity and self-reported collective activism in women’s rights (Duncan, 1999; Fischer et al., 2000; Kelly & Breinlinger, 1995; Liss, Crawford, & Popp, 2004; Szymanski, 2004; Zucker, 2004).”
The Differential Relationship of Feminist Attitudes and Feminist Identity to Self-Efficacy (2008, unknown): “…these measures are the Feminist Identity Scale (FIS; Rickard, 1989), the Feminist Identity Development Scale (FIDS; Bargad & Hyde, 1991), and the Feminist Identity Composite (FIC; Fischer et al., 2000), which are based on Downing and Roush’s (1985) fivestage model of feminist identity development.”
Are Feminist Women Protected from Body Image Problems? A Meta-analytic Review of Relevant Research (2009, methodology): “Fischer and colleagues developed the Feminist Identity Composite (FIC), which combines items from the FIS and FIDS and is argued to have better psychometric properties ( Fischer et al. 2000 ).”
Do Feminist Identity Styles Moderate the Relation Between Perceived Sexist Events and Disordered Eating? (2006, methodology): “Other researchers (e.g., Fischer et al., 2000; Moradi & Subich, 2002) have found that feminist identity styles are related to perceived sexist events; thus, feminist attitudes may help women recognize and label sexist events, and in turn, protect them from negative consequences of these events.”
Perceived Sexist Events and Feminist Identity Development Attitudes (2002, methodology): “this study (see Table 1) approximated the range of means reported by Bargad and Hyde (1991) for three samples (these authors did not report standard deviations) and means and standard deviations reported by Fischer et al. (2000) .”
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory and Development of an Abbreviated Version: The CFNI-45 (2010, background): “Additionally, Domestic, Romantic Relationship, Sexual Fidelity, and CFNI total scores were correlated positively with Passive Acceptance subscale scores of the Feminist Identity Composite (Fischer et al., 2000).”