The Adolescent Femininity Ideology Scale: Development and Validation of a New Measure for Girls

By D. Tolman, Michelle V. Porche. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Development of the Sexual Self-Concept Inventory for Early Adolescent Girls (2006, methodology): “This is a well-established instrument, with strong validity and reliability (Rosenberg, 1965), and has been used successfully with other samples of early adolescent urban ethnically diverse girls (Tolman & Porche, 2000).”
The Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Inventory for Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults (2006, background): “Both factors have been shown to be associated with girls’ well-being and quality of intimate interactions (e.g., Harter, Waters, Whitesell, & Kastelic, 1998; Tolman & Porche, 2000).”
Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men: Grade-School Children's Responses to Objectified Images of Women and Men (2003, background): “These girls might be girls with a loss of voice that has been associated with body image problems (e.g., Smolak & Munsterieger, 2002; Tolman & Porche, 2000 ).”
Pleasure Reading: Associations Between Young Women's Sexual Attitudes and their Reading of Contemporary Women's Magazines (2004, methodology): “The Adolescent Femininity Ideology Scale (Tolman & Porsche, 2000) was used to assess participants’ internalization of some of the negative aspects of femininity ideologies.”
Unmasking the Inequitable Discipline Experiences of Urban Black Girls: Implications for Urban Educational Stakeholders (2011, background): “Black girls, particularly Black girls from low-income urban communities, seem to defy these traditional standards of femininity which suggest that girls should be quiet, reserved, and submissive (Tolman and Porche 2000).”
Looking Good, Sounding Good: Femininity Ideology and Adolescent Girls' Mental Health (2006, methodology): “In previous research with adolescent girls, we developed the Adolescent Femininity Ideology Scale (AFIS; Tolman & Porche, 2000), which measures the extent to which girls have internalized these two aspects of femininity ideology: inauthenticity in relationships and body objectification.”
Gender Role Development and Body Image among Male and Female First Year College Students (2006, background): “This construct captures the degree to which individuals internalize an inauthentic self in relationships with others, a quality that is considered socially “appropriate” yet unhealthy feminine behavior ( Tolman & Porche, 2000 ).”
Femininity Ideology and Sexual Health in Young Women: A focus on Sexual Knowledge, Embodiment, and Agency (2011, methodology): “…with sexual passivity, ignorance, and objectification, concern has been raised for how acceptance of these norms interferes with women’s sexual agency and subsequent sexual health (Tolman, 1994, 1999, 2002; Tolman et al., 2006; Tolman & Porche, 2000; Tolman, Spencer, RosenReynoso, & Porche, 2003).”
Late Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Experiences and Sexual Satisfaction (2006, background): “The entire 12th grade in one northeastern urban school district was recruited as part of a longitudinal study of adolescent sexual health (our collaboration with administrators and teachers produced 93% compliance for the district; see Tolman & Porche, 2000).”
Objectification Theory and Psychology of Women: A Decade of Advances and Future Directions (2008, background): “Examples include the Appearance Orientation (Cash, 2000) and the Ob-jectified Relationship With Body (Tolman & Porche, 2000) subscales, which assess appearance focus and monitoring, and the Social Comparison to Models and Peers (Jones, 2001, 2004) and the Physical Appear-ance Comparison (Thompson, H”
The Femininity Ideology Scale: Factor Structure, Reliability, Convergent and Discriminant Validity, and Social Contextual Variation (2007, background): “Tolman and Porche (2000) developed the Adolescent Femininity Ideology Scale (AFIS), which measures the degree to which adolescent girls have internalized or resisted two features of traditional femininity: bringing an inauthentic self into relationships and having an objectified relationship with…”