Actitud sexista y trascendente durante el noviazgo entre universitarios latinoamericanos

Abstract

Sexist and transcendent attitude during courtship between latin American university. The gender-role attitudes in situations, concerning various fields, contribute significantly to our behavior, and acceptance or rejection of behaviors that we consider relevant or not at any given time. Our aim is to examine the development of gender-role attitudes in dating relationships of university students in Mexico and Argentina by adapting the GRAS/ EARG scale. They involved a total of 2013 college students of both sexes aged between 17 and 26 years. They were provided with the questionnaire dating violence (CUVINO), the scale of gender-role attitudes (GRAS) and personality questionnaire EPQ-RA. The results show a two-dimensional structure on the scale of gender attitudes in both countries (transcendent and sexist attitudes), which correlated significantly with the factors of violence and abuse tolerance. Also, women are significantly sexist, and as for Mexico stands out for a larger share in both types of attitude. Moreover, results also exhibit that as age increases, growths the sexist attitude; a significant relation between an egalitarian attitude with neuroticism and psychoticism, and between sexist attitudes and compliance.