Sex-role stereotyping in masculinity and femininity attribution of athletes

• Main Authors: Bautista, Jenevie Karen, Lee, Glenda Leanne, So, Trisha Camille
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Sex role; Attribution (Social psychology); Femininity (Psychology); Masculinity (Psychology); Athletes; Stereotype (Psychology); Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8820
• Institution: De La Salle University

The present experimental research seeks to find out the masculinity and femininity attributions of athletes given by both athletes and non-athletes. Another aspect is the investigation of possible existing main and interaction effects between and among the study's four main variables. The variables are: type of actor, sex of actor, sex of observer and type of sports.The researchers used purposive and convenience smapling to arrive at the sample of non-athletes, they came from four Genpsyc classes. This sample of non-athletes was made to read a hypothetical stimulus which varied into four types and was already randomized before given to them. After reading the hypothetical stimulus, they were asked to answer the Bem's Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) for the measurement of the masculinity and femininity attribution. The same sampling design was utilized to arrive at the sample of athletes, those who engages in soccer and gymnastics. The hypothetical stimulus that the athletes read was varied only into two types. The same questionnaire was given to them to assess the masculinity and femininity attribution of the character in the hypothetical stimulus.A 2X2X2X2 Analysis of Variance was employed to answer the main problems and the interaction effects. For the main problems, type of sports elicited a significant influence on masculinity attribution, while for the femininity attribution, sex of actor and type of sports was found to have significant effects.Data showed that no over-all interaction effects between the four variables were present in both masculinity and femininity attribution. However, a significant interaction can be seen at sex of observer-type of sports, type of observer-sex of actor, type of observer-type of sports and sex of actor-type of sports for the masculinity attribution, this study also conclude that the following combination resulted to a significant interaction, sex of observer-type of sports and type of observer-type of sports.