Knowledge about women: a scale for clinical social workers

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dc.contributor.advisorValentich, Mary E.
dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Cynthia Lynn
dc.coverage.spatial200000322en
dc.date.accessioned2005-07-21T21:39:43Z
dc.date.available2005-07-21T21:39:43Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 124-136.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis describes the development of the Knowledge About Women Scale, an instrument designed to measure clinical social worker's knowledge about women. The instrument was developed in response to concern within the profession about gender bias in clinical practice. The instrument was developed on the assumption that gender bias in clinical practice, as a manifestation of a practitioner's knowledge, negatively affects the quality of service provided to women clients, and that the development of a tool to assess knowledge about women will help in decreasing the degree of gender bias in clinical social work practice. For this study, a questionnaire was developed consisting of two parts. Part A contained eleven questions designed to elicit data for use as criterion variables, and four demographic questions. Part B contained 65 items intended to measure knowledge about women. The questionnaire was administered to 122 M.S.W. clinical social workers employed in the Calgary area. Reliability testing reduced the number of items in the instrument from 65 to 46. The reliability of the abridged instrument, using Cronbach's alpha, is reported as .912. The instrument is judged to i i i have content validity. The correlation coefficients among the eleven criterion variables and the instrument were statistically significant and ranged from .32 to .63, thereby indicating good concurrent validity. A final part of this thesis reports an examination of differences in item response patterns by gender. Overall, female respondents demonstrated significantly more accurate knowledge about women than male respondents. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the study's implications for social work research, education and practice.
dc.format.extentix, 146 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationMarshall, C. L. (1987). Knowledge about women: a scale for clinical social workers (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15193en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/15193
dc.identifier.isbn0315360046en
dc.identifier.lccHV 1444 M35 1987en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/23751
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.lccHV 1444 M35 1987en
dc.subject.lcshSocial work with women
dc.subject.lcshWomen - Services for
dc.subject.lcshSocial workers - Attitudes
dc.titleKnowledge about women: a scale for clinical social workers
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Welfare
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Social Work (MSW)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 625 520535268
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ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleaseyen
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