Evaluation of ambivalent sexism in Colombia and validation of the ASI and AMI brief scales

Abstract

Sexism has implications for people’s physical and mental health. Thus, understanding sexism and its prevalence is key to understanding the phenomenon. In the current study, 717 Colombian men and women completed the brief scales of Ambivalent Sexism toward women and men and the Gender Identity Scale. The assessment was conducted using a web-based method. Both scales, as expected, were two-dimensional. Reliability ranged from .83 to .88. Moderate and high correlations were observed with the Gender Identity Scale. Men showed higher levels of hostile and benevolent sexism toward women and benevolent sexism toward men. It was also found that the higher the level of education, the lower the rates of sexism toward men and women. The brief scales were valid and reliable for measuring hostile and benevolent sexism in Colombia.

Hostile Sexism Predicts Negative Attitudes Toward Condom Use

“…From a socio-anthropological point of view, Colombians are diverse due to the variety of geographical, climatic and cultural factors in which they live. It is the Catholic religious component that influences the Colombian people as a unifying cultural factor of this diversity (Dı´az, 2012).Thus, there is still the assignment of people, especially the elderly and less educated, to traditional gender roles and the display of sexist attitudes, which, although they have decreased in the last 20 years, are still considerably high compared to other first world countries (Glick et al, 2000;Martı´nez-Baquero & Vallejo-Medina, 2024). These rules of interaction between men and women remain in the cultural patterns of the majority population and are transmitted to children from a very early age through the stereotyped sexual models that are socialized (Caricote, 2006).…”

“…The short version of the Ambivalence toward Men Inventory (AMI; Glick & Fiske, 1999) was validated for the Colombian population (Martı´nez-Baquero & Vallejo-Medina, 2024). It measures HS and BS.…”