Confirmatory Factor Structure Assessment of the French Version of the <i>Femininity Ideology Scale</i>

Achille Vicky Dzuetso Mouafo; Sylvestre Nzeuta Lontio

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Confirmatory Factor Structure Assessment of the French Version of the Femininity Ideology Scale

Achille Vicky Dzuetso Mouafo, Sylvestre Nzeuta Lontio

Published in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 6)

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Background: The literature assesses feminist ideology using multifactorial scales developed in English and validated only in a Western context on African American, Asian American, European American and Latino American samples. The most recent version of these measures is the Femininity Ideology Scale (FIS), a psychometric method that only exists in the English language and whose factorial structure has not yet been validated; hence the fact that the reliability of the data collected through it is questionable. Objective: To fill these gaps, this study validates the confirmatory factor structure of the French version of the Femininity Ideology Scale (FIS) in the Cameroonian context. Method: The translation of the FIS follows the standardized “back-translation” process and maintains the initial factor structure of the original scale. The French version of the scale is validated with a sample of Cameroonian women (N = 575; M_age = 24.50 years; SD = 2.94). The statistical analysis uses a Structural Equation Model method (SEM) to test the confirmatory factors of the instrument. Result: The data collected show that the French version of the FIS is reliable and presents an acceptable confirmatory factorial structure according to the adjustment indices of the structural models (α = .80, χ²/df= 1.98, CFI = .901, RMSEA ˂ .06). Conclusion: The results show that the confirmatory factorial structure of the French version of the FIS is valid. This instrument is linked to measures of contemporary and internalized sexisms, gender based social dominance orientation and attitudes towards abuse against women.

Published in	Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.pbs.20221106.14
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Adherence to Feminist Ideology, Structural Equations, Feminist Movements, Confirmatory Validation of the Factor Structure

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Achille Vicky Dzuetso Mouafo

Department of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Maroua, Maroua, Cameroon
Sylvestre Nzeuta Lontio

Department of Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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