Gender Differences in College Students’ Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexual Harassment: The Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yenys Castillo ◽  
Frank Muscarella ◽  
Lenore T. Szuchman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Same Sex

Gender Differences in Sexual Harassment and Coercion in College Students

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1222-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim S. Ménard ◽  
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall ◽  
Amber H. Phung ◽  
Marian F. Erian Ghebrial ◽  
Lynette Martin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Sexual Harassment

Sex-Stereotyped Traits, Physical Attractiveness, and Interpersonal Attraction

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1311-1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve A. Nida ◽  
John E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Interpersonal Attraction ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marital Partner ◽  
Basic Procedure ◽  
Interpersonal Situations ◽  
Physically Attractive

Two distinct categories of information operative in interpersonal situations are what a person “looks like” and what the person “acts like.” The former can be represented by degree of physical attractiveness. The latter can be summarized in terms of personality traits, classified according to the degree to which they are typically seen as masculine or feminine. The present research assessed the effects of simultaneously manipulating these two variables on different measures of heterosexual interpersonal attraction. The basic procedure involved college students' reading an elaborate context story from which ratings of hypothetical stimulus persons, in both “working partner” and “marital partner” contexts, emerged. The physical attractiveness of the hypothetical person was varied by means of facial photographs, and the person's trait description was manipulated for degree of sex-stereotype loading on the basis of “sex-stereotype index” values for adjectives. In both experiments subjects strongly preferred physically attractive stimulus persons. In a study in which subjects chose between two stimulus persons, interpersonal attraction was related to the sex-stereotype loading of personality traits, with subjects preferring stimulus persons described with traits drawn from the same-sex stereotype. In a second study in which subjects rated only one stimulus person, such an effect did not occur. In both studies feminine traits were more highly valued than masculine characteristics within the context of marriage.

Exploratory Investigation of Perceptions of Influences on Best-Friend Relationships

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Female Subjects

24 male and 24 female college undergraduates (aged 18 to 50 yr.) responded to close-ended and open-ended questions concerning a relationship with a male or female best friend. Subjects rated important variables derived from theory and previous attraction-friendship research. There was no evidence for gender differences except that “shared interests” and “stability of relationship” were more important for friendships with a male, and female subjects rated “boost each other's egos” as more important than males did. Physical attractiveness was more important for other-sex relationships than for same sex. Self-generated characteristics suggested important variables not included in social psychological literature.

Evaluating Measures of Contemporary Sexism

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Campbell ◽  
E. Glenn Schellenberg ◽  
Charlene Y. Senn
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Sexist Attitudes ◽  
Acceptable Measure

Two recently published measures of contemporary sexist attitudes were examined and compared with a sample of 106 Canadian college students. Swim, Aikin, Hall, and Hunter's (1995) Modern Sexism scale was found to be an acceptable measure of sexist attitudes in terms of its internal reliability and its ability to predict other gender-related political attitudes. Although the Modern Sexism scale and the Neosexism scale (Tougas, Brown, Beaton, & Joly, 1995) were equally good at predicting support for the feminist movement and attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, the Neosexism scale had better internal reliability and exhibited stronger gender differences. Moreover, the Neosexism scale was superior at predicting value orientations relevant to modern prejudices.

Gender differences in responses to competition with same-sex co-workers

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun Young Lee ◽  
Selin Kesebir ◽  
Madan M. Pillutla
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Same Sex

scholarly journals Changing landscapes: Gay men in the west and northwest of Ireland

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072098169
Author(s):  
Aidan McKearney
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The Many ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

This article focuses on the experiences of gay men in the rural west and northwest region of Ireland, during a period of transformational social and political change in Irish society. These changes have helped facilitate new forms of LGBTQI visibility, and local radicalism in the region. Same-sex weddings, establishment of rural LGBT groups and marching under an LGBT banner at St Patricks Day parades would have been unthinkable in the recent past; but they are now becoming a reality. The men report continuing challenges in their lives as gay men in the nonmetropolitan space, but the emergence of new visibility, voice and cultural acceptance of LGBT people is helping change their lived experiences. The study demonstrates the impact of local activist LGBT citizens. Through their testimonies we can gain an insight into the many, varied and interwoven factors that have interplayed to create the conditions necessary for the men to: increasingly define themselves as gay to greater numbers of people in their localities; to embrace greater visibility and eschew strategies of silence; and aspire to a host of legal, political, cultural and social rights including same-sex marriage. Organic forms of visibility and local radicalism have emerged in the region and through an analysis of their testimonies we can see how the men continue to be transformed by an ever-changing landscape.

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