Arkansas Multidimensional Gender Scale.

Participants completed the Arkansas

Multidimensional Gender Scale (AMGS) via Survey Monkey. The AMGS is based on
the literature surrounding gender identity and feedback received during other
research projects. Three distinct areas make up a person’s gender identity:
identification as the biological sex of birth, importance of the biological sex, and
liking the biological sex.
These three areas were the three separate scales on the AMGS. Each of these 46
scales had varying cut-off scores which, in combination with each of the other scales,
will show where a person falls on the eight categories of gender identity. The AMGS
has19 items on which participants rated themselves via a 1 (Almost always) to 7
(Almost never) Likert style scale (See Appendix D). Items were calculated into an
overall score utilizing all 19 items and three separate scale scores. The combination
of scale scores determined where each person lies on the gender identity continuum
between masculine and feminine and which of the eight hypothesized broad
categories he or she fell into by determining where they are in relationship to the
three overarching components that make up gender identity

Statistical analysis. All statistical analysis was done using SAS 9.2.
Principal component analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, Pearson’s product
moment correlation, and descriptive statistics of central tendency were
run. As the three scales are theorized to be correlated, a promax rotation
was used in the final analysis of the data. IIOC values have already been
calculated to determine the construct validity of items. These statistics
were utilized to verify several different components of instrument
validity. Principal component analysis was utilized to verify the three
factors hypothesized to make up gender identity; Person recognizes
him/herself as biological man or woman, what the person feels about
his/her biological sex, and how that sense of identity affects the persons
role in society. Cronbach’s alpha provided a measure of internal
consistency for the AMGS. Because these three factors are highly
correlated, a promax rotation provided the best fit of the three factors.
Pearson’s product moment correlation determined convergent validity
between the AMGS and the BSRI (Bem, 1974) to assess if the two instruments
were measuring similar constructs. Pearson’s product moment correlation
was run between the AMGS and the FIS (Serafini, Maitland, & Adams, 2006)
to determine if the two instruments are measuring different constructs
to verify discriminant validity.