Sexism in adolescence: parenting styles, division of housework, prosocial behaviour and aggressive behaviour /Sexismo en la adolescencia: estilos de crianza, división de tareas domésticas, conducta prosocial y agresividad

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify which factors were the best predictors of sexist attitudes. To achieve this aim, two groups of variables were analysed. The first group consisted of variables relating to parenting styles and the division of housework. The second group consisted of personal factors related to prosocial behaviour and physical and verbal aggression. The sample was made up of 732 adolescents aged 12-14 from Valencia (Spain). The analysis was conducted separately for boys and girls. Correlation analyses and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted on each subsample. The results show that the division of housework and parenting styles were related to sexist attitudes. This connection was especially strong for the division of housework according to traditional gender roles, which was found to lead to hostile and benevolent sexist attitudes. The results also showed that prosocial and aggressive behaviours were correlated with sexist attitudes. The results varied by gender. The findings of this research have implications for the prevention of sexist attitudes.

Me and Us Versus the Others: Troubling the Bullying Phenomenon

“…With regard to sexism , as has been consistently shown in previous works, students who have more hostile sexist attitudes participate more significantly as bullies (Carrera et al, 2013; Dum et al, 2017; Malonda et al, 2017; Ovejero et al, 2013; Pickel & Gentry, 2017) and bully followers. The opposite is observed with benevolent sexism, which apparently acts as a protective factor, as shown in the work of Carrera et al (2013) and contrary to the work of DeSouza and Ribeiro (2005).…”

“…While there is no doubt about the relationship between sexism and gender violence and sexual harassment (Expósito, Herrera, Moya, & Glick, 2010), this relationship has not received much attention in the dynamics of bullying. However, research that has explored this issue also confirms the strong relationship between sexism and participation as an aggressor in bullying situations (Carrera et al, 2013; Ovejero, Yubero, Larrañaga, & Navarro, 2013), as well as in relation to aggressive behavior (Malonda, Tur-Porcar, & Llorca, 2017). Specifically, in a study involving 1,500 Spanish high school students, Carrera et al (2013) confirmed that, both for boys and girls, hostile sexism, mediated by instrumental personality traits, predicts positive attitudes toward bullying, which, in turn, predicts bullying behavior; whereas benevolent sexism, mediated by expressive personality traits, predicts negative attitudes toward bullying.…”

“…This was not confirmed for benevolent sexism unless it was also associated with high levels of hostile sexism, unlike the findings of DeSouza and Ribeiro (2005), who observed that benevolent sexism, but not hostile sexism, is related to bullying in Brazilian students. Similarly, Malonda et al (2017) identified weak but positive correlations between perpetration of physical and verbal aggressive behavior among peers and hostile sexism, as well as weak and negative correlations between hostile sexism and prosocial behavior, but they found no relationships with benevolent sexism.…”

Relations among Romantic Myths, Offline Dating Violence Victimization and Cyber Dating Violence Victimization in Adolescents

“…Not recognizing some abuse behaviors increases the probably of suffering victimization because victims are not fully aware of abusive behaviors [52]. Adolescents' beliefs in romantic myths could make them believe that certain abusive, controlling and jealous behaviors are signs of love and are normal behaviors in a romantic relationship [39,41,42,47,53]. In line with this, some previous studies have linked offline DV victimization with myths of romantic love [47,48,50,51,54,55].…”

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

“…The assumption of these gender roles, together with myths about romantic love that are typical at the adolescent stage, contributes to a search for irrational justifications of the violence exerted and suffered. The reason for this is to minimize the consequences of the experience, and therefore to increase the acceptance of violence as a normalized pattern for relationships, and to make gender violence invisible [28,29].…”