Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Actitudes de género y estereotipos en enfermería

2010; University of Alicante; Volume: 14; Issue: 28 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7184/cuid.2010.28.06

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María Dolores Burguete Ramos, José Ramón Martínez Riera, Germán Martín González,

Stress and Burnout Research

Introduction: In 1993, Annette M. Links, conducted the study on gender attitudes and stereotypes in nursing.Objectives: To describe attitudes of nursing students to stereotypes of the nurse.To evaluate the evolution of perception of gender stereotypes of nursing students.Subjects and methods: Observational, descriptive and diachronic.Structured survey was conducted 440 freshmen.At the end of third year, she passed the same questionnaire to 307 students.The data were entered into a database in Xbase format and used the program SPSS 15.0.It has been used t test.For the means for schools, ANOVA test was used.Significance level > 0.05.Results: Agreement in which women are more affectionate than men.Women are seen as more caring (P = 0.011), less independent (P = 0.000), less intelligent (P = 0.011), less leadership (P = 0.000) and less possibility of promotion (P = 0.015).The men consider sex objects young nurses (P = 0.029) and bossy older (P = 0.018). Conclusions:The results suggest evidence of the persistence of images of nurses in accordance with female stereotypes: Gender makes a difference in the surveyed population.