THE BSRI M, F, AND ANDROGYNY SCORES ARE BIPOLAR.

This article presents information on Bern sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). The BSRI has been presented as an instrument that allows one to measure an aspect of sex roles that is not tapped by more tradi tional MF scales. This unique quality of the BSRI is said to be the result of three important features that distinguish it from other, commonly used MF scales. In most of the research that involves items that relate to sex roles, items have been chosen on the basis of their differential endorsement by males and females or on the basis of the fact that males and females earn significantly different scores on those items. The implication of using this method to select sex-role-related items is that the items so selected will be different items than would have been selected on the basis of their differential endorsement by males and females.