bacon_2025_stss

16,058 responses from 518 respondents to 31 items.

One of 3 tables from the same source; this one measures Self-silencing (STSS). The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionSilencing the Self Scale (31 items, 1-5, stored as scored) for 518 women aged 18-25 or 60+.
ReferenceBacon, A. (2025). Women's depression, Self-silencing and endorsement of traditional feminine norms: a 21st century update [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15575267
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://zenodo.org/records/15575267

Size and shape

Responses16,058
Respondents518
Items31
Response categories5
Responses per respondent31
Responses per item518
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleTargeted/specific
construct typePersonality
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameSelf-silencing (STSS)

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, bacon_2025_self_silencing.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate age
cov_age_groupCovariate ageGP
cov_sesCovariate SES

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("bacon_2025_stss")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("bacon_2025_stss")

How to cite

@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15575267,
  doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.15575267},
  url = {https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15575267},
  author = {Bacon, Alison},
  title = {Women's depression, Self-silencing and endorsement of traditional feminine norms: a 21st century update.},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year = {2025},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_6 v5.11
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qahq-j855
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv5.11
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0