Perceived erotic value of homosexuality and sex‐role attitudes as mediators of sex differences in heterosexual college students' attitudes toward lesbians and gay men

1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Louderback ◽  
Bernard E. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Sex Role Attitudes ◽  
Students Attitudes

Race and Sex Differences In Sex Role Attitudes of Southern College Students

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Lyson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
White Women ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
World View ◽  
White Men ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Attitudes ◽  
Black And White

A sample of southern college students is used to investigate race and sex differences among nine Likert-type sex role attitudes. Results show that black and white men share a similar sex role orientation while black and white women also share a similar world view. There were only two instances where blacks were notably different from whites. First, blacks were more likely to feel that a woman's real fulfillment in life comes from motherhood, and second, blacks were more likely to feel that it was appropriate for a mother with school-age children to work.

Come-ons and Put-offs: Unmarried Students' Strategies for Having and Avoiding Sexual Intercourse

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi B. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Sexual Encounter ◽  
Sex Role Attitudes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sexual Encounters

One-hundred and twenty male and 109 female unmarried college students participated in a questionnaire study of actual and expected male-female differences in the use of 10 strategies for having and avoiding sexual intercourse. As predicted, both men and women viewed strategies for having sex as used predominantly by males and strategies for avoiding sex as used predominantly by females. However, sex-role attitudes were unrelated to students' expectations of sexual encounters. Both traditional and profeminist students expected that strategies for having sex would be used predominantly by males and strategies for avoiding sex would be used predominantly by females. It appeared that students still stereotyped having sex as a male goal and avoiding sex as a female goal. Men and women were unexpectedly similar in their personal strategies for influencing a sexual encounter. Both men and women reported using more indirect strategies to have sex and more direct strategies to avoid having sex. These findings suggest that when men and women share the same goals (such as having or avoiding sex), expected differences between male and female influencing agents disappear

Reactions to Men and Women Who Cry: A Study of Sex Differences in Perceived Societal Attitudes versus Personal Attitudes

1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Cretser ◽  
William K. Lombardo ◽  
Barbara Lombardo ◽  
Sharon Mathis
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Stimulus Situation ◽  
Sex Role Attitudes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Male Subjects

This study examined sex differences and similarities in sex-role attitudes using reactions to males' and females' crying as the stimulus situation. 285 male and 307 female students completed questionnaires. Subjects were asked to indicate their reactions to the sight of a woman crying and to the sight of a man crying. They were also asked to indicate how they thought “people” react to the sight of a man or a woman crying. Subjects perceived “people” as holding a double standard of crying, with much greater acceptance of females' than of males' crying. The proportion of subjects of both sexes who considered crying by males acceptable was significantly greater than the proportion who felt “people” would find it acceptable. Women seemed to hold a unisex standard of crying, while male subjects endorsed a double standard.

Differences in Black and White American College Students’ Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men

Sex Roles ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard E. Whitley ◽  
Christopher E. Childs ◽  
Jena B. Collins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
White American ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Students Attitudes

Sex Differences in Sex-Role Attitudes in Children of Women Professionals

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 947-950
Author(s):  
Marylizabeth Lamie ◽  
Gerald P. Smith ◽  
Irmingard Lenzer ◽  
Philip Street ◽  
Ron Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Women Professionals ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Sex Role Attitudes ◽  
Young Girls

Previous research has shown that young girls tend to be less sexist than young boys. In this study, 40 children aged 5 to 7 yr. whose mothers were professionals were asked to classify sex-role attributes. Few sex differences in sex-role attributions were found while age differences remained.

Comparison: Attitudes toward Homosexuality of International and American College Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1053-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Lippincott ◽  
Brian Wlazelek ◽  
Lisa J. Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Asian Students ◽  
Attitudes Toward Homosexuality ◽  
American Students ◽  
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals

Using the Index of Attitudes Toward Homosexuals to study the attitudes of 34 Asian students and 32 American students toward lesbians and gay men showed these Asian students were more likely to harbor homophobic attitudes than these American students. There were no significant sex differences between groups.

Sex, Sex-Roles, and Irrational Beliefs

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 631-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Coleman ◽  
Lawrence H. Ganong
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Role Socialization ◽  
Sex Role Socialization

Irrational beliefs have been related to a variety of psychological distresses, some of which are thought of more in relation to one sex than the other, i.e., depression, nonassertiveness, anger. However, Ellis did not assert that there were sex differences in irrational beliefs, and few researchers have examined the effect of sex-role socialization on irrational beliefs. The present study explored the effect of sex and sex-roles on irrational beliefs for a sample of 270 college students using the Irrational Beliefs Test and Bern's scale. While the study supports the belief that sex and sex-role are not unidimensional constructs, the data suggest that differences in sex-role socialization contribute to differences in adherence to irrational beliefs. It appears, however, that a feminine sex-role orientation is related to irrational beliefs. Although study is needed, clinicians are cautioned not to assume there are no sex or sex-role differences related to irrational thinking.

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