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Psicología, Conocimiento y Sociedad
On-line version ISSN 1688-7026
Abstract
BRIA, Paula; GOMEZ YEPES, Talía; ETCHEZAHAR, Edgardo and UNGARETTI, Joaquín. Chivalry as a mediator between authoritarianism and gender roles. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.3, pp.34-47. Epub Dec 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-7026. https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v10.n3.3.
Throughout history men and women have maintained intimate relationships based on structural asymmetry or inequality, which they maintain is a set of sexist attitudes such as chivalry, added to a conventional framework and stability according to authoritarianism and gender roles beliefs, based on attributes belong to each gender. The aim of the present study was the analysis of the relationships between the cavalry and the benevolent form of sexism, authoritarianism and the maintenance of traditional ideologies of gender roles. The participants were 303 subjects from Buenos Aires, between the ages of 18 and 53, of both sexes. It was observed that at higher levels of chivalry, higher levels of gender role ideology and higher levels of authoritarianism. In addition, we have found that chivalry functions as a mediator between authoritarianism and the ideology of gender roles. The relationships between the variables and the differences in strength between the relationships according to sex are discussed.
Keywords : Prejudice; chivalry; gender roles; authoritarianism.