Masculinity Ideology and Gender Equality: Considering Neosexism

  1. Martínez Martínez, María del Carmen
  2. Paterna Bleda, Consuelo
Revista:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728 1695-2294

Año de publicación: 2013

Volumen: 29

Número: 2

Páginas: 558-564

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Anales de psicología

Resumen

El objetivo de este estudio es investigar la relación entre la ideo-logía masculina tradicional, el neosexismo y la igualdad de género. De for-ma más específica, comprobamos el efecto del neosexismo como variable mediadora. Los resultados muestran que los hombres mantienen una mayor ideología tradicional masculina y más creencias neosexistas en comparación con las mujeres. Asimismo la ideología masculina se relaciona negativamen-te con la igualdad de género en hombres, mientras que en mujeres no apa-rece dicha relación. Por último, el análisis de mediación confirma que el ne-osexismo es una variable mediadora entre la ideología masculina y la igual-dad de género, pero sólo en hombres. Los resultados se comentan desde la teoría de género considerando el neosexismo como un obstáculo para el lo-gro de la igualdad de género.

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