Sentences with phrase «benevolent sexism in»

Controlling for the effects of age, relationship experience predicted increased hostile sexism in girls and increased benevolent sexism in boys.

In summary, as the theory posits men's dependence on women in close relationships, this might have fostered benevolent sexism in our sample (Curun, 2001; Glick & Fiske, 1996, 1997, 1998; Glick et al., 2000; Kilianski & Rudman, 1998; Travaglia et al., 2009).

Moreover, the present study offers empirical information about the association of hostile and benevolent sexism in close relationships.

(Extra credit: +2 points to anyone who caught the benevolent sexism in the prior paragraph — and another +2 points to anyone who appreciated my use of Style's «point system.»)

There were also relationships, to smaller degrees, in the relationships between entitlement and hostile sexism in women and benevolent sexism in men.

Not exact matches

[Benevolent sexism] did relate to rape myth acceptance in cases of acquaintance rape (Abrams et al., 2003), which accounts for about two thirds of all rapes committed (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005; RAINN 2012).

In contrast, entitled women exhibited benevolent sexism, indicating that they think women deserve special care and treatment.

Studies 1 (N = 62) and 2 (N = 100) show, with slightly different paradigms and measures, that compared to exposure to hostile sexism, exposure to benevolent sexism increases the extent to which female Dutch college students define themselves in relational terms and decreases the extent to which they emphasize their task - related characteristics.

Benevolent but not hostile sexism uniquely predicted more negative views of women who engage in premarital sex once other variables were controlled.

Benevolent sexism might sound like a fancy academic word but it can have profound consequences in relationships.

As mentioned earlier, although the association between hostile and benevolent sexism and gender stereotypes in romantic relationships — specifically male dominance and male assertiveness factors — is demonstrated in some studies (e.g., Sakallı & Curun, 2001), no research has yet investigated the potential mediating effect of ambivalent sexism on sex role orientation and gender stereotypes.

and demonstrated that many women find benevolent sexist males more favorable than neutral males in terms of sexism.

The present study examined the mediating effects of ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent) in the relationship between sex role orientation (masculinity and femininity) and gender stereotypes (dominance and assertiveness) in college students.

Despite these limitations, this study is the first to investigate the mediating effect of ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent) between sex role orientation (masculine and feminine) and gender stereotypes (dominance and assertiveness) in romantic relationships.

Perhaps since romantic relationships involve intimacy and affection, the participants who score highly on hostile sexism measures only believe in behaving in a benevolent way to gain dominance in romantic relationships.

As expected in the initial model, benevolent sexism mediated between the femininity personality trait and male assertiveness as well as between the femininity trait and male dominance.

In contrast, benevolent sexism predicted more positive views of a primary caregiving mother (Gaunt 2013b).