{"id":440,"date":"2020-02-15T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-stop\/?p=440"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:26:08","slug":"the-true-romantic-benevolent-sexism-and-paternalistic-chivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/the-true-romantic-benevolent-sexism-and-paternalistic-chivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘true’ romantic: Benevolent sexism and paternalistic chivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"

More about Professor Dominic Abrams<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Full text of paper<\/a>
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About\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

In an experim<\/span>e<\/span>ntal study, the researchers ask<\/span>ed<\/span> participants to complete the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory<\/em> (Glick & Fiske, 1996) and a new measure of <\/span>paternalistic chivalry<\/span><\/i>. Their measure of paternalistic chivalry taps into attitudes that are both courteous and considerate to women but place restrictions on behavio<\/span>u<\/span>r considered appropriate for women during courtship.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers find that benevolent sexism was positively related to paternalistic chivalry. Hostile sexism and participant sex were unrelated to paternalistic chivalry. The findings have wide implications for research and equality policies.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Programme and methodology<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022\u00a0142 participants from the University of Kent took part<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2022 Data collected as part of mass testing session at University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2022 Participants completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI)<\/em><\/span>
\n\u2022 <\/strong><\/em>Participants completed a measure of paternalistic chivalry: <\/em>e.g. During a date, a man should protect the woman if she is being harassed by other men\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Findings\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/em>A positive relationship between benevolent sexism and paternalistic chivalry was obtained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This relationship was significant when the effects of hostile sexism and participant sex were accounted for.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/em>Hostile sexism and participant sex were not related to paternalistic chivalry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Gender of participant did not affect the data.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong><\/em>Individuals that are high in benevolent sexism are more likely to support a belief system in which women are treated with courtesy and consideration <\/span>but<\/span><\/b> are restricted in the roles they may play within intimate relationships\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact<\/h3>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>This research project offers n<\/span>ew <\/span>and important <\/span>insight <\/span>for<\/span> understanding of benevolent sexism<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Suggests that paternalistic chivalry may be a barrier to gender equality\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Chivalry may discourage women from seeking on personal success by encouraging them to seek success via a benevolent male partner<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Important implications for equality between men and women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Can help guide equality campaigns as well as policy-making\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More about Professor Dominic Abrams Full text of paper About\u00a0 In an experimental study, the researchers asked participants to complete the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996) and a new measure of paternalistic chivalry. Their measure of paternalistic chivalry taps into attitudes that are both courteous and considerate to women but place restrictions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prejudice-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}