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Nuevas formas, viejos intereses: neosexismo en varones españoles

2001; Cologio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado; Volume: 13; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

0214-9915

Miguel Moya, Francisca Expósito,

Gender Diversity and Inequality

New forms, old interests: Neosexism among Spanish men. In the present paper the construct of «Neosexism», as one of the new forms of sexism, and the Spanish version of the Neosexism scale (Tougas, Brown, Beaton & Joly,(1995) are presented. Using a sample of 1 191 men, we tested the psychometric properties of the scale and the relationship between Neosexism and some other sociodemographic cha racteristics and with old-fashioned sexism, attitudes toward af firmative action and men’ s collective in terest. Ours results show that «Neosexism», a construct created in a cultural and economic context different to Spain, could be applied to a Spanish context. W e also found that the Neosexism scale can be an appropriate instrument to measure modern forms of sexism, specially in or ganizational and work settings. A mediational analysis performed on the data suggest that, among men, neosexist beliefs in fluence subjective threat to collective interests, this perceived threat triggering an opposition to af firmative action programs.