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A measure of feminism is introduced, and a case is made for the acceptability of its levels of reliability, criterion-related, content, construct and discriminant-validity. Feminism is shown to be related to such features of the quality of life as happiness and being a good person. Survey results are reported from a sample of 431 members of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women and 413 undergraduate women from the University of Guelph.
We would like to express our thanks to all the members of CRIAW who so generously took the time and effort to answer our survey, to Al Dyer for his help with the computer work in this project, Christina Schraefel who spent many long hours entering the data, Marirose McCabe who typed the various drafts of the paper, and to Karl Schuessler for helpful suggestions. Earlier versions of the paper were presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Winnipeg, June 1986, and to The International Sociological Association meeting, New Delhi, August 1986.
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Poff, D.C. (2003). Feminism and the Quality of Life. In: Essays on the Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0389-5_17
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