Validation Of A Pilot Questionnaire To Evaluate Sexist Language

Abstract

A pilot questionnaire has been designed with the objective of measuring the use of sexist language presented by the study sample of 141 subjects. This study sample comes from the students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Malaga. The chosen model questionnaire is a Likert-type scale, composed of a series of items or statements related to the following dimensions: the importance of using non-sexist language, the compliance with certain expressions, the factors that may hinder the use of non-sexist language and the feelings before the use of certain expressions, as well as other complementary variables that contribute to characterize the population. The questionnaire has been shaped by evidence obtained from literature, reference models and adapted items. The initial questionnaire contained a number that amounted to 45 items that, after being judge by experts and changed in structure and content, was configured in 40 items for its final version. Initially, the experimental sample is supplied as a pilot to be later administered in different Faculties of the University of Malaga. After the validation, the results are expected to serve as an instrument that allows reflecting the university reality in the faculty of Educational Sciences, since for its educational and socializing mission forms a central space of action and therefore could be a reference in the use of non-sexist language.