Attitudes toward Women's Body Hair: Relationship with Disgust Sensitivity

Autor/inn/en	Tiggemann, Marika; Lewis, Christine
Titel	Attitudes toward Women's Body Hair: Relationship with Disgust Sensitivity
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28 (2004) 4, S.381-387 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00155.x
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Psychological Patterns; Undergraduate Students; Questionnaires; Sexual Identity; Human Body; Interpersonal Attraction; Behavior Standards; Attitude Measures; Norms; Gender Issues; Negative Attitudes; Hygiene + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Fragebogen; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Menschlicher Körper; Interpersonale Anziehung; Normwert; Geschlechterfrage; Negative Fixierung
Abstract	We aimed to further investigate the "hairlessness" norm that is the common practice of body hair removal among women. A sample of 198 undergraduate students (91 men, 107 women) completed questionnaires asking about attitudes toward women's body hair and the reasons women remove this hair, as well as a measure of disgust sensitivity. It was found that the vast majority (98%) of female participants regularly remove their leg and/or underarm hair, most frequently by shaving, and attribute this to femininity and attractiveness reasons. However, the attributions that they and men made for other women were much more socially normative in nature. For the sample as a whole, negative attitudes toward body hair were related to disgust sensitivity. It was concluded that body hair on women, but not on men, has become an elicitor of disgust and its removal correspondingly normative. (Author).
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