Confirmatory factorial analysis of the scale of gender mandates

Abstract

In Mexico, there are 30.6 million young people aged 15 to 29 years (25.7% of the total population). Of the women, 49.4% did not use contraceptives or condoms during their first sexual intercourse. Socialization and gender conformation are prone to evolve into gender mandates, which understood as psychosocial categories are prescriptive stereotypes that condition socialization processes: notions that determine masculinity or femininity from a heteronormative posture. Method: A nonexperimental, transectional analytical design was performed to obtain the psychometric properties of the instrument through confirmatory factor analysis. With 446 young people with a mean age of 25.68 years (DE 16.8). The scale of gender mandates was applied to a sample that presented a similar amount in men and women. A four-factor scale was obtained, having two mandates related to feminine gender mandates and two as masculine. The instrument achieves a confirmatory factorial model with the appropriate psychometric elements. Although one of the factors appears slightly low in reliability, the scale is ideal for approximations to heteronormative sexualities.