Russian version of the Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form: Structure, validity, and measurement invariance

Psychology of Men and Masculinities (США). 2021. Vol. 22. No. 4. P. 821–837.

Krivoshchekov V., Gulevich O., Sorokina A.

The research presented here reports the process of adapting the Male Role Norms Inventory-Revised (MRNI-R) for use in Russian. The full (MRNI-R) and short form (Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form; MRNI-SF) versions of the Inventory were tested in two studies. There were 1,016 participants in Study 1 and 1,038 participants in Study 2, which investigated second-order, seven-factor, and bifactor models. The analysis of construct validity indicated that the MRNI-R did not fit the data. Therefore, we developed a Russian-language MRNI-SF which fit the data well. The modified bifactor model of the MRNI-SF, which contained two covariances among the latent factors, demonstrated good construct validity and fit the data better than the unidimensional, seven-factor, second-order, oblique, and pure orthogonal bifactor models. Configural, metric, and scalar measurement invariance were supported for the modified bifactor model. The analysis of the MRNI-SF’s convergent validity demonstrated that traditional masculinity ideology (TMI) was related to stereotypes about men, ambivalent attitudes toward them, and negative attitudes toward homosexuals. Taken together, we concluded that the Russian-language MRNI-SF might be used for a reliable assessment of TMI among groups based on gender and sexual orientation.

Keywords: маскулинность, гендерные стереотипы, masculinity, gender stereotypes, гендерные предрассудки, сексуальные предрассудки, gender prejudices, sexual prejudices

Publication based on the results of: Political mobilisation in the context of communicative abundance (2021)