Journal article
Just Think About It: Mindfulness, Sexism, and Prejudice Toward Feminists
Sex Roles, Vol.68(5), pp.283-295
03/2013
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-012-0241-4
Abstract
This study examined the relation between mindfulness, sexist motivations and beliefs, and prejudice toward women who violate traditional gender roles—namely feminists. In a preliminary study, 672 (251 men, 421 women) undergraduates from a United States Midwestern university completed a measure of mindfulness and warmth toward feminists and consistent with hypotheses, more mindfulness was associated with more warmth toward feminists. Extending this initial finding to the main study, 653 (273 men, 380 women) undergraduates from a U.S. Midwestern university completed measures of mindfulness, motivation to respond without sexism, ambivalent sexism, and warmth toward feminists. Consistent with hypotheses, compared to women participants, men participants were lower on internal motivation to respond without sexism, higher on hostile and benevolent sexism and less warm toward feminists. Also consistent with hypotheses, for men participants, more mindfulness was associated with higher internal motivation to respond without sexism, less benevolent sexism, and more warmth toward feminists. In contrast, for women participants, more mindfulness was only associated with less hostile sexism. Finally, a path analysis revealed that the positive relation between mindfulness and warmth toward feminists for men participants was partially mediated by more internal motivation to respond without sexism (i.e., a significant indirect effect), but not by less sexist beliefs. Implications for mindfulness, sexism, and prejudice more generally are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Just Think About It: Mindfulness, Sexism, and Prejudice Toward Feminists
- Creators
- Sarah Gervais - Department of Psychology University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln NE 68588-0308 USALesa Hoffman - Department of Psychology University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln NE 68588-0308 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sex Roles, Vol.68(5), pp.283-295
- Publisher
- Springer US; Boston
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11199-012-0241-4
- ISSN
- 0360-0025
- eISSN
- 1573-2762
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2013
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9983993330702771
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