I Love You but I Cyberbully You: The Role of Hostile Sexism

Martínez-Pecino, Roberto; Durán, Mercedes

doi:10.1177/0886260516645817

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“…The presence of these sexist traits and roles among adolescents has been studied in recent years, confirming that young people continue to reproduce patriarchal attitudinal and behavioral patterns [5,21]. Generally, however, studies of sexism have been associated with the role of the aggressor [51,52] and with the male gender [53]. This present study implies a qualitative leap in understanding the manifestation of sexist attitudes by considering the role of the victim and by including both genders.…”

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confidence: 70%

Synergy between Acceptance of Violence and Sexist Attitudes as a Dating Violence Risk Factor

Antelo

Gordillo

Parra

2020

IJERPH

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The normalization of aggressive behavior in teenage couples when they are dating is a phenomenon that is currently reaching very worrying proportions. The consequences are creating a serious public health problem and have hence aroused the interest of many researchers as to its causes. Most have centered on the role of the aggressor. However, the processes of aggression and victimization are inseparable, and relegating the victims to the background only contributes to increasing the prevalence, severity, and perdurability of the problem. The objectives of this study were to: (i) identify the types and frequency of abuse that adolescents suffer in their relationships; (ii) analyze the relationship between sexist attitudes, acceptance of violence, and victimization; and (iii) determine predictors of the violence suffered in adolescent dating relationships. The sample comprised 2577 adolescents (55.2% girls) of 14 to 18 years in age (M = 15.9, SD = 1.2). The instruments used were the dating violence questionnaire (Cuestionario de Violencia de Novios, CUVINO) and the Scale of detection of sexism in adolescents (Escala de Detección de Sexismo en Adolescentes, DSA). The results indicate that victims showed high tolerance towards gender violence. Acceptance was greater the more frequent the abuse or aggressions suffered. Regarding sexist attitudes, only those belonging to the benevolent dimension had predictive value. The results also show that the interaction between acceptance of the abuse suffered and the manifestation of benevolent sexist attitudes predicted victimization involving specific forms of aggression.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Synergy between Acceptance of Violence and Sexist Attitudes as a Dating Violence Risk Factor

Antelo

Gordillo

Parra

2020

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“…Van Ouytsel, Ponnet, and Walrave [47] discovered that adolescents endorsing gender stereotypes reported significantly higher perpetration control behaviors. Martínez-Pecino and Durán [48] found that men with high hostile sexism levels reported higher cyber abuse in romantic relationships compared to those with low hostile sexism levels.…”

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Cyber Dating Abuse and Masculine Gender Norms in a Sample of Male Adults

2019

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Gender role norms have been widely studied in the offline partner violence context. Different studies have indicated that internalizing these norms was associated with dating violence. However, very few research works have analyzed this relation in forms of aggression against partners and former partners using information and communication technologies (ICT). The objective of the present study was to examine the co-occurrence of cyber dating abuse by analyzing the extent to which victimization and perpetration overlap, and by analyzing the differences according to conformity to the masculine gender norms between men who are perpetrators or victims of cyber dating abuse. The participants were 614 male university students, and 26.5% of the sample reported having been a victim and perpetrator of cyber dating abuse. Nonetheless, the regression analyses did not reveal any statistically significant association between conformity to masculine gender norms and practicing either perpetration or victimization by cyber dating abuse.

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“…The central role of relationship‐related insecurities also illuminates when and why men's hostile sexism reliably predicts greater psychological and physical aggression toward intimate partners (e.g., Forbes, Adams‐Curtis, & White, ; Juarros‐Basterretxea, Overall, Herrero, & Rodríguez‐Díaz, ; Martinez‐Pecino & Durán, ). The dominance‐based perspective described at the beginning of this section would suggest that men who endorse hostile sexism aggress to maintain power in their relationship.…”

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Relationship (in)security is central to the sources and outcomes of sexist attitudes

Hammond

Cross

Overall

2020

Social & Personality Psych

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Ambivalent sexism theory recognizes that sexist attitudes maintain gender inequalities via sociocultural and close relationship processes. This review advances established work on sociocultural processes by showing how people's need for relationship security is also central to the sources and functions of sexism. Men's hostile sexism—overtly derogatory attitudes toward women—involves insecurities about women exploiting men's relational dependence. Accordingly, men's hostile sexism predicts relational aggression when their dependence on partners is risky. Men's benevolent sexism—patronizing and protective attitudes toward women—offers men relationship security by idealizing traditional gender roles in romantic relationships. Benevolent sexism also appeals to women who seek the security of a devoted partner, but requires women to invest in their relationship at the expense of their independence. Our relationship science perspective reveals that romantic (in)security is critical to why people adopt sexist attitudes and why sexist attitudes create differential costs and benefits for women and men.

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I Love You but I Cyberbully You: The Role of Hostile Sexism

Cited by 72 publications

References 36 publications

Synergy between Acceptance of Violence and Sexist Attitudes as a Dating Violence Risk Factor

Synergy between Acceptance of Violence and Sexist Attitudes as a Dating Violence Risk Factor

Cyber Dating Abuse and Masculine Gender Norms in a Sample of Male Adults

Relationship (in)security is central to the sources and outcomes of sexist attitudes

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