Title

Religion and sexism: The moderating role of participant gender

School/Department

Rosemead School of Psychology

Publication Date

5-2010

Abstract

The present study examined the relationship between gender, religious belief and ambivalent sexism. Specifically, this study tested the hypothesis that participant gender moderates the relationship between religious belief and ambivalent sexism. Three-hundred thirty seven Evangelical Christian undergraduate students from the Southwestern United States were administered the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and the Christian Orthodoxy Scale. Results showed that gender moderated the relationship between Christian orthodoxy and Protective Paternalism. This finding suggests the importance of intervening variables, such as gender, in understanding the relationship between religion and sexism

Keywords

Sexism; Ambivalent Sexism Inventory; Sex differences

Publication Title

Sex Roles

Volume

62

Issue

9-10

First Page

615

Last Page

622

DOI of Published Version

10.1007/s11199-010-9754-x .

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