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Development and validation of Swedish classical and modern sexism scales
Author(s) -
Ekehammar Bo,
Akrami Nazar,
Araya Tadesse
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00203
Subject(s) - psychology , covert , prejudice (legal term) , construct (python library) , social psychology , context (archaeology) , confirmatory factor analysis , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology , programming language
In two studies we develop and validate a Classical—overt or direct—and a Modern—covert or subtle—Sexism Scale concerning attitudes toward women, for a Swedish (Scandinavian) context. Further, we examine whether these two forms of prejudice are distinguishable. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that, although highly correlated, classical and modern sexism are distinguishable. The construct validations showed that men had higher means on modern and classical sexism scores than women, and that our scales were related to other constructs as expected. In a third study, we analyzed the knowledge and the content of cultural stereotypes about women. There were no differences in the knowledge of cultural stereotypes between men and women or between high‐ and low‐sexist individuals. The findings are discussed in relation to previous international studies that examine people’s modern and/or classical sexism.