Predictors of ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women in a Latter-Day Saint (LDS) adult sample: a test of Glick and Fiske's ambivalent sexism theory

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Title Predictors of ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women in a Latter-Day Saint (LDS) adult sample: a test of Glick and Fiske's ambivalent sexism theory
Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Education
Department Educational Psychology
Author Stevenson, Ryan Ford
Date 2014-08
Description The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of multiple demographic and religiosity variables as predictors of ambivalent sexism toward women in a sample of LDS adults. A nationwide sample of 3563 active or former LDS participants were recruited through online social media sites and email. The research design was correlational and used survey instruments. The main findings demonstrated that gender was significantly related to the endorsement of sexism. Overall, men had greater benevolent and hostilely sexist attitudes than women. Gender also moderated the relationship between religiosity and benevolent sexism when LDS activity and affiliation were predictors, such that men's endorsement of sexism increased at a greater rate than women's. Conversely, gender moderated the relationship between all religiosity measures and hostile sexism, such that as religiosity increased, women's endorsement of hostilely sexist attitudes increased more than men's did.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Ambivalent sexism; Benevolent sexism; Hostile sexism; Latter-day Saints; Latter Day Saints; Violence against women
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Doctor of Philosophy
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Ryan Ford Stevenson 2014
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65j0qgj
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