Measuring Masculinity and Femininity by Children's Games Choices

A modification of Rosenberg and Sutton-Smith's Games List, including their original F and M scales, was administered to 419 Connecticut school children. Large differences were found between the Ohio and the Connecticut subjects for F scores, little or none for M, though correlations between sex and the F and M scores were about equal for both samples. Revised F and M lists discriminated the sexes little better than the original lists. However, introducing a corrector for total number of "Likes" produced sharp improvement in discrimination. Norms appropriate to particular communities may be required for individual usefulness of the device.