Similarities and Differences between Parents and Children with Respect to Gender Prejudice: the Intertwinement between Family and Cultural Stereotype Effect

Authors

  • Sara Alfieri Università Cattolica di Milano
  • Daniela Barni Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Elena Marta Università Cattolica di Milano
  • Clelia Anna Mannino University of Minnesota

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/1632

Keywords:

objectification, media, well-being, self-esteem, sexism

Abstract

Few studies have investigated the similarities and differences in gender prejudice between parents and their offspring. This work is divided into two phases: our goal in Phase I was to investigate whether any similarity exists in the prejudice response profiles of parents and their young adult offspring. Phase II sought to uncover the levels of unique similarity between parents and child in gender prejudice (cultural stereotype effect).

Participants were 293 Italian families (young adult child, mother and father, for a total of 879 people). Each participants completed the Ambivalent Sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996) and Ambivalence toward Men (Glick & Fiske, 1999) scales. As our research included family data, specific analysis were used, such dyadic indexes (Kenny, Kashy & Cook, 2006). Results reveal that (1) the response profiles of parents and offspring are dissimilar, and (2) the slight shared variance between them is determined by the cultural stereotype effect.

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Author Biographies

Sara Alfieri, Università Cattolica di Milano

Sara Alfieri is a psychologist, post-doc at the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan, researcher of the Atheneum Centre for Studies and Research on the Family. Her research topic are: ethnic and gender prejudice and values transmission within the family, family relationships, transition to adulthood. sara.alfieri@unicatt.it

Daniela Barni, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore di Milano

Daniela Barni is a psychologist and researcher at the Faculty of Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. She is aldo researcher at the Atheneum Center for Studies and Family Research at the same University. Her research interests are directed to the study of family relationships, with particular attention to the issue of values and methodology of research in psychology.

Elena Marta, Università Cattolica di Milano

Marta Elena is a psychologist and Professor of Social Psychology and Community Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of Milan. She is also researcher at the Atheneum Centre for Studies and Research on Family of the same university. Her research focuses on: volunteering and social engagement, transition to adulthood, family relationships.

Clelia Anna Mannino, University of Minnesota

Clelia Anna Mannino is a psychologist and works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Among her research interests: development of a sense of community among young people, social engagement, transition to adulthood.

 

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Published

2013-06-07

How to Cite

Alfieri, S., Barni, D., Marta, E., & Mannino, C. A. (2013). Similarities and Differences between Parents and Children with Respect to Gender Prejudice: the Intertwinement between Family and Cultural Stereotype Effect. La Camera Blu, (8). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/1632

Issue

No. 8 (2012): Donne Assoggettate: corpi velati e mercificati

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La camera blu is an open access, online publication, with licence  CCPL Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported