Don't Rock the Boat: Women's Benevolent Sexism Predicts Fears of Marital Violence

Autor/inn/en	Exposito, Francisca; Herrera, M. Carmen; Moya, Miguel; Glick, Peter
Titel	Don't Rock the Boat: Women's Benevolent Sexism Predicts Fears of Marital Violence
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34 (2010) 1, S.36-42 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2009.01539.x
Schlagwörter	Family Violence; Females; Social Cognition; Gender Discrimination; Gender Bias; Social Bias; Foreign Countries; Sex Role; Spouses; Vignettes; Predictor Variables; Aggression; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Soziale Kognition; Geschlechterstereotyp; Ausland; Geschlechterrolle; Ehepartner; Prädiktor; Spanien
Abstract	We examined how Spanish women's benevolent sexism (a sex-role attitude) affects their perceptions of whether a hypothetical husband will feel threatened by a wife's success at work. In a social perception study, female participants (N = 210) read a vignette in which a husband and his wife argued over her job promotion. Women's benevolent sexism (but not hostile sexism) predicted viewing the husband as more threatened by his wife's promotion and more likely to aggress against her (intimate partner violence). The effect of women's benevolent sexism was robust and not mitigated when specific information about the husband's attitude (traditional, egalitarian, no information) was provided. Belief that a husband would feel threatened by a wife's promotion partially mediated the relationship between women's benevolent sexism scores and their anticipation that the husband would become violent. Benevolently sexist women may embrace traditional roles in relationships in part to avoid antagonizing male partners, ultimately maintaining the status quo. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10