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Personality and Individual Differences 55 (2013) 887–891 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepag e: www.elsevier.c om/locate/paid More of a (wo)man offline? Gender roles measured in online and offline environments Evita March a,⇑, Rachel Grieve b,1, Eric Marx a,2, Kate Witteveen a,3 a Psychology Department, Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, 1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, QLD 4014, Australia b Psychology Department, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 30, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The increased availability of and access to the Internet has resulted in online psychological assessment Received 21 March 2013 becoming an attractive mode of collecting data. However, equivalence between online measures and Received in revised form 12 June 2013 their offline counterpart cannot be assumed. The aim of the current study was to examine for the first Accepted 10 July 2013 time the online and offline equivalence of a commonly employed measure of gender role orientation: Available online 12 August 2013 the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) short-form. Participants (N = 372) completed the BSRI short-form either online (n = 244) or offline (n = 128). Equivalence was assessed through reliability measures and Keywords: mean differences. Reliability an