Gender, Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward Feminism

Sarup, Gian

doi:10.2224/sbp.1976.4.1.57

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“…Feminism as an ideology stands for much of what authoritarians think is wrong with the world today-feminists are seen as unconventional, rebellious, and immoral. Indeed, past research has shown that people scoring high on authoritarianism tend to endorse anti-feminist attitudes (Duncan, Peterson, & Winter, 1997;Haddock & Zanna, 1994;Sarup, 1976). Thus, low scores on measures of authoritarianism should be associated with feminist consciousness (path A), which in turn may indirectly lead to women's rights activism (path B).…”

Section: Personality and Life Experiencesmentioning

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Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism

Duncan

1999

Political Psychology

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Prior research on political activism focused on direct predictors of collective action (e.g., life experiences), with little attention paid to what psychologically motivates individuals to act. The group consciousness literature provides an obvious psychological motive for activism, but ignores individual difference variables that differentiate people who develop group consciousness from those who do not. This article integrates the two literatures on activism and group consciousness, and presents a model whereby group consciousness mediates relationships between collective action and personality and life experiences. The general model was evaluated empirically by examining feminist consciousness and women's rights activism in two samples. Feminist consciousness was found to mediate relationships between activism and a number of personality and life experience variables, including low authoritarianism, political salience, sexual oppression, and education about women's position in society. The possible extension of this model to other kinds of political activism is discussed.

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Section: Personality and Life Experiencesmentioning

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Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism

Duncan

1999

Political Psychology

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188

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“…Another target of authoritarians' hostility and disapproval is supporters of feminism and the women's movement (Duncan, Peterson, & Winter, 1997;Haddock & Zanna, 1994;Sarup, 1976). This is understandable in terms of both the differences between the two groups' stances toward authority and their actual beliefs.…”

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Right‐Wing Authoritarianism, Party Identification, and Attitudes Toward Feminism in Student Evaluations of the Clinton‐Lewinsky Story

Smith

Winter

2002

Political Psychology

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This study explored the relationship among undergraduates' right-wing authoritarianism (as measured by the RWA scale), attitudes toward feminism, party identification, gender, and attitudes about the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship. Factor analysis yielded three subscales, reflecting participants' evaluations of Clinton's morality, the affair, and Kenneth Starr (the independent counsel). Republican identification was related to each subscale and also mediated the relationship between RWA and two subscales, which illustrates how party identification channels the expression of personality variables in partisan contexts. In addition, RWA-especially those items tapping aggression-was directly related to negative evaluations of Clinton, which suggests a punitiveness going beyond the mere channeling of opinions by party identification. Attitudes toward feminism were unrelated to the subscales, possibly because feminism supporters viewed Clinton's policies positively but his behavior negatively. However, females did give significantly lower evaluations of Clinton and the affair.

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“…Behavior advocated by the women's movement presented a risk to which some may have had trouble accommodating: Women opposed to the movement, feminism, or feminists have been found to score higher on measures of authoritarianism, anxiety, and harm avoidance than those who supported it (Duncan, Peterson, & Winter, 1997; Haddock & Zanna, 1994; Sarup, 1976; Worell & Worell, 1977). Consistent with this picture, women's movement advocates were found to value being broad-minded and imaginative, to have higher levels of ego development, and to be more self-actualizing than women who did not support the movement (Mahoney, 1975; Rozsnafszky & Hendel, 1977).…”

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Personality and social change: Individual differences, life path, and importance attributed to the women's movement.

Agronick¹,

Duncan²

1998

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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This article identifies antecedent characteristics of individuals who found the women's movement important and then shows how finding it important was associated with personality change. Eighty-six women provided personality and life data as college seniors in 1958 or 1960, prior to the onset of the women's movement, and in 1981, after the movement gained momentum. A combination of openness, ambition, and dissatisfaction, as assessed by California Psychological Inventory (CPI; H. Gough, 1957/1966) in college, and subsequent life path from ages 28 to 43 significantly predicted importance attributed to the women's movement (IWM). On CPI scales, IWM was associated with significant increases on scales including Dominance, Self-Acceptance, Empathy, Psychological Mindedness, and Achievement via Independence. Correlates of IWM with self-reported feelings at ages 33 and 43 and observer-based personality ratings at age 43 supplemented analyses of personality change. Findings support the utility of examining the impact of social change on personality.

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Gender, Authoritarianism, and Attitudes Toward Feminism

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism

Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism

Right‐Wing Authoritarianism, Party Identification, and Attitudes Toward Feminism in Student Evaluations of the Clinton‐Lewinsky Story

Personality and social change: Individual differences, life path, and importance attributed to the women's movement.

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