Sex bias in the Self-Directed Search investigative subscale |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands;2. Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands;3. Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands;4. Department of Pharmacy, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;5. Department of Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, The Netherlands;6. Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, The Netherlands;7. Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;8. Department of Internal Medicine, Viecuri Medical Centre, Venlo, The Netherlands;9. Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands;10. Biomedical Research Institute, University Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium;11. MRC Epidemiology Lifecourse Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton UK |
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| Abstract: | The Investigative (I) subscale of the Holland Self-Directed Search (SDS) vocational interest inventory was examined for sex-role stereotyping. A sample of 842 male and female psychologists, some of whom were researchers and some of whom were practitioners, completed the SDS and a revised set of investigative items (Re). As hypothesized, researchers' I and Re scores were higher than practitioners'; and the I, but not the Re, scale produced higher scores for males than females. This pattern indicates that the SDS investigative items contain sex bias, but the data suggest that item revisions or a simple correction factor for females' I scores may ameliorate the bias. |
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