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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"gender role beliefs"”.
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Associations of Sex, Gender, and Gender Role Beliefs with Mental Health Attitudes
… toward mental healthcare seeking in regards to gender, age, race, and profession. This study aimed to look at traditional gender role beliefs, sex, and gender expression as predictors of individual’s mental health attitudes and individual’s views of mental health norms. Using a cross-sectional …
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Risk of Unintended Pregnancy in Latina Young Adults: The Effect of Gender Role Beliefs, Acculturation, and Depression
<p>This study investigated the effect of Latina gender role beliefs, or marianismo beliefs, on risk for unintended pregnancy by examining contraceptive method use in Latina young adults. Acculturation and depression were also examined as moderators of the association between marianismo and …
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Work and Family Roles: A Qualitative Study of Women and Men in Beginning Career and Family Stages
… by recent social changes which permit expanded roles, yet restricted by the gender-role expectations of former generations. While women are participating more fully in the provider role and men in the caretaker role, primary responsibility for these roles is still dictated by traditional …
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Sexism and how it mediates the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance
… societal held ideas about rape and traditional gender role beliefs can explain. Therefore, the present study focuses on how ambivalent sexist belief structures mediate the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance. It was hypothesized that ambivalent sexism (AS) when divided into its …
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The Effect of Community and Individual Differences on College Students' Attitudes and Behaviors towards Transgender Individuals
<p>For transgender adolescents in an environment consisting largely of non-transgender (cisgender) individuals, whether adults and their peers in school are rejecting or accepting of their gender identity can have a large impact on their immediate and future outcomes. As college students will go on …
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Gender Representation and Occupational Portrayals in Primetime Television
<p>This study examined gender representation and occupational portrayals on primetime television, in order to determine if gender-role stereotypes are still present throughout programming, and what progress, if any, has been made in comparison to previous studies. A content analysis was done on …
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Predicting Responses of Asian Christian Clergy to Domestic Violence
… education, adherence to Asian cultural values, gender role beliefs, and degree of religious fundamentalism (n = 72) were assessed using an anonymous questionnaire consisting of multiple-choice items and short-answers. Multiple regression analyses determined that individuals with stronger Asian …
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The Mediating Influence of Homophobia on Male Rape Victims
… measuring their homophobic and traditional gender role beliefs. Significant differences were found between the male and female participants in victim blame attribution and rape minimization. Significant differences were also found in the amount of blame attributed to the victim and perceived …
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Abused and Non-Abused College Females' Causal Attributions to Verbally Abusive Partner Behavior
… of abuse (i.e., self-esteem and feminine gender role beliefs) were additionally assessed in relation to attributional response. Results suggested that abused women who were exposed to non-provocative female statements were more inclined to blame themselves than were non-abused women who …
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Gendered and classed stereotyping : the effects of viewing Teen Mom
… representations of sociocultural groups such as gender, race/ethnicity, and class are thought to influence group-based attitudes and beliefs. Although class is a powerful social organizer in society, the study of class representations is most often ignored in the examination of television …
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Young adult sexual styles: Links to concepts of self and others
… second component of sexual identity and includes beliefs about the self in relationships, desire for relationships, personal marriage expectations and gender role beliefs. Concepts of relationships and partners, the third component of sexual identity, includes features of dating relationships in …
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Walk like a man: a content analysis of anti-sexual violence websites for men
… is that holding stereotypical or traditional gender role beliefs is the number on predictor of rape myth acceptance. The method was devised using the Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) scale. A content analysis was then conducted on four websites chosen based on two …
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Attitudes towards rape as a function of the victim's gender and sexual orientation
… judgements of sexual assault when victim gender, sexual orientation, and perpetrator gender were varied. Study I investigated judgements of victim blame and perceived severity of the assault towards victims of male perpetrators in a depicted stranger rape. Results revealed that men made …
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The Role Of Traditionalism In Patterns Of Support From Adult Children To Fathers In The Later Years
<p>This study explores the effects of fathers' gender role attitudes on the receipt of instrumental and expressive support from their adult children. Using data on 1159 fathers aged 50-94 from the National Survey of Families and Households (W-1), I sought to determine if fathers' traditional gender …
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Social determinants of childhood overweight and obesity in South Australian families: parenting, work patterns, and gender roles.
… for investigation: food-related parenting beliefs and practices; parental work patterns; and gender roles within families. Each of these domains is shaped by broader ideologies and structural arrangements. Briefly, it is argued that contemporary parenting beliefs and practices may lead …