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Scoring the Drennen Gender Specificity Scale (DGSS)
How to score it:
Add up your answers to the even numbered questions and divide by 4. This is your "gender specificity" score. You can see how gender specific you are on the same 1-5 scale.
Now, do the same thing with the odd numbered questions. These tell you how "gender inspecific" you
are.
What it means:
Simply put, gender specific bisexuals care a lot about whether their lovers are male or female. Onthe other hand, gender inspecific bisexuals aren't that concerned about the sex of their partners.
How it was developed:
To measure gender specificity, I designed and administered the Drennen Gender Specificity Scale (DGSS). The DGSS consists of eight questions, with half testing for degree of gender specificity (#2,4,6,8) and half for gender inspecificity (#1,3,5,7). A majority of the questions were pulled from previous research (#3,4,5,6,8), while others were gathered from over twenty-five informal interviews with bisexual women (#1,2,7).
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