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PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN MEXICO
Author(s) -
Acosta Eduardo Almeida,
Arizmendi Graciela Rodríguez,
Corona Dolores Mercado,
Weber Marcela Rivero,
Almeida María Eugenia Sánchez
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598308247463
Subject(s) - psychology , masculinity , femininity , social psychology , boldness , sample (material) , developmental psychology , orientation (vector space) , competition (biology) , demography , personality , sociology , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , chromatography , ecology , biology , psychoanalysis
After a description of the women's situation in Mexico and after overviewing the literature on this issue, the sample characteristics and the application of the six questionnaires are described. The Anova with sex and educational orientation as independent variables produces a number of significant effects. Sex emerges as an important variable on the Importance of Marriage (M > F), the Desired Number of Children (M > F), Masculinity, Femininity, Potency of Self‐Concept and on four professional values. Educational orientation has a significant effect on Competition, Internal Control and three professional values. The interaction sex by educational orientation is significant for the Desired Number of Children, Boldness and three professional values. The findings are compared with the ones obtained in former studies. The authors conclude that sex role stereotypes are disappearing with this sample of educated subjects and that a certain equality between sexes is growing up.