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Adolescents’ judgments of homophobic harassment toward male and female victims: The role of gender stereotypes
- Source :
- Journal of Moral Education. 46:145-157
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- One hundred and fifty-six adolescents, drawn from a high school in a Midwestern suburb, provided judgments of a hypothetical incident of homophobic harassment with either a male or female victim. Participants also completed a revised version of the Macho Scale, measuring their endorsement of gender stereotypes (α = .75). Without the interaction term, victim gender was not predictive of judgments of the harassment, however, endorsement of gender stereotypes decreased the odds of believing the behavior was completely wrong (χ2 (1) = 9.18, p = .00). Once added, the interaction term was the only significant variable in the model, demonstrating that endorsement of gender stereotypes has an effect on judgments of homophobic harassment of male victims, but not female victims (χ2 (1) = 4.78, p = .03). As more schools invest resources in anti-harassment initiatives, our findings suggest that discussion of gender and gender stereotypes is essential.
- Subjects :
- Aggression
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education
05 social sciences
Religious studies
050109 social psychology
Female victim
humanities
Odds
Developmental psychology
medicine
Harassment
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Statistical analysis
Homosexuality
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Social psychology
health care economics and organizations
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653877 and 03057240
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Moral Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4203cd5c15282f6687ca6ccf15016a13
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2017.1291415