Is traditional gender ideology associated with sex-typed mate preferences? A test in nine nations

Date

2006-05-01

Author

EASTWICK, Paul W.
EAGLY, Alice H.
Glick, Peter
JOHANNESEN-SCHMIDT, Mary C.
FISKE, Susan T.
BLUM, Ashley M. B.
ECKES, Thomas
FREIBURGER, Patricia
HUANG, Li-li
LAMEIRAS FERNANDEZ, Maria
MANGANELLI, Anna Maria
PEK, Jolynn C. X.
RODRIGUEZ CASTRO, Yolanda
Sakallı, Nuray
SIX-MATERNA, Iris
VOLPATO, Chiara

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

70
views

0
downloads

Social role theory (Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) predicts that traditional gender ideology is associated with preferences for qualities in a mate that reflect a conventional homemaker-provider division of labor. This study assessed traditional gender ideology using Glick and Fiske's (1996, 1999) indexes of ambivalent attitudes toward women and men and related these attitudes to the sex-typed mate preferences of men for younger mates with homemaker skills and of women for older mates with breadwinning potential. Results from a nine-nation sample revealed that, to the extent that participants had a traditional gender ideology, they exhibited greater sex-typing of mate preferences. These relations were generally stable across the nine nations.

Subject Keywords

Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Gender Studies

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39940

Journal

SEX ROLES

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9027-x

Collections

Department of Psychology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Ambivalent Sexism, Gender, and Major as Predictors of Turkish College Students' Attitudes Toward Women and Men's Atypical Educational Choices Sakallı, Nuray (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-04-01) The aim of the study was to investigate how ambivalent gender attitudes (hostile/benevolent sexism; hostility/benevolence toward men), plus gender and major predict attitudes toward men studying social sciences and women studying natural sciences in Turkey, where gender attitudes are relatively traditional. Undergraduates (N = 215, mean age = 21.16) completed scales of Ambivalent Sexism, Ambivalence toward Men, Attitudes toward Men in Social Sciences (AMSS), and Attitudes toward Women in Natural Sciences (A...
Gender role orientation of athletes and nonathletes in a patriarchal society: A study in Turkey Koca, C; Asci, FH; Kirazcı, Sadettin (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2005-02-01) The purpose of this study was to compare the gender role orientation and gender role classification of female and male athletes to those of their nonathlete counterparts. A total of 463 athletes and 378 nonathletes completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The findings indicated that athletes score higher on the masculinity and femininity subscales than do nonathletes. Men had higher scores on masculinity than did women, whereas women had higher scores on femininity than did men. In addition, both men and women...
The Role of Gender, Attachment Dimensions, and Family Environment on Loneliness Among Turkish University Students Demirli, Aylin; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-06-01) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictive value of gender, attachment dimensions and family environment in explaining loneliness among students. The study included 473 students (281 females, 192 males) from Ankara University. The UCLA Loneliness Scale, Family Environment Assessment Scale and Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised Questionnaire were administered to all participants. The results of the regression analyses demonstrated that the avoidance dimension of attachment a...
Ambivalent sexism, belief in a just world, and empathy as predictors of Turkish students' attitudes toward rape victims Sakallı, Nuray; Glick, Peter (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2007-12-01) The present study investigated whether hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, belief in a just world and empathy predict attitudes toward rape victims in a Turkish sample. Turkish college students (N = 425, mean age = 22) completed scales assessing Ambivalent Sexism, Belief in a Just World and Rape Victim Empathy as predictors of a general measure of attitudes toward rape victims. Male (as compared to female) participants had significantly less positive attitudes toward rape victims. Correlational analyses show...
The Relationships between Ambivalent Sexism and Religiosity among Turkish University Students Tasdemır, Nagihan; Sakallı, Nuray (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-04-01) This study explored the relationships among hostile sexism (HS), benevolent sexism (BS), and religiosity for men and women in Turkey, where Islam is the predominant religion. 73 male and 93 female university students completed measures of ambivalent sexism and religiosity. Replicating previous work with Christians, religiosity was a significant correlate of BS when HS was controlled, for both men and women. As predicted, and in contrast to previous research with Christians, partial correlations indicated th...

Citation Formats

P. W. EASTWICK et al., “Is traditional gender ideology associated with sex-typed mate preferences? A test in nine nations,” SEX ROLES, pp. 603–614, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39940.