TY - JOUR
T1 - Is traditional gender ideology associated with sex-typed mate preferences? A test in nine nations
AU - Eastwick, Paul W.
AU - Eagly, Alice H
AU - Glick, Peter
AU - Johannesen-Schmidt, Mary C.
AU - Fiske, Susan T.
AU - Blum, Ashley M.B.
AU - Eckes, Thomas
AU - Freiburger, Patricia
AU - Huang, Li Li
AU - Fernández, Maria Lameiras
AU - Manganelli, Anna Maria
AU - Pek, Jolynn C.X.
AU - Castro, Yolanda Rodríguez
AU - Sakalli-Ugurlu, Nuray
AU - Six-Materna, Iris
AU - Volpato, Chiara
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement The research was supported in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Paul Eastwick
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - Social role theory (Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) predicts that traditional gender ideology is associated with preferences for qualities in a mate that reflect a conventional homemaker-provider division of labor. This study assessed traditional gender ideology using Glick and Fiske's (1996, 1999) indexes of ambivalent attitudes toward women and men and related these attitudes to the sex-typed mate preferences of men for younger mates with homemaker skills and of women for older mates with breadwinning potential. Results from a nine-nation sample revealed that, to the extent that participants had a traditional gender ideology, they exhibited greater sex-typing of mate preferences. These relations were generally stable across the nine nations.
AB - Social role theory (Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) predicts that traditional gender ideology is associated with preferences for qualities in a mate that reflect a conventional homemaker-provider division of labor. This study assessed traditional gender ideology using Glick and Fiske's (1996, 1999) indexes of ambivalent attitudes toward women and men and related these attitudes to the sex-typed mate preferences of men for younger mates with homemaker skills and of women for older mates with breadwinning potential. Results from a nine-nation sample revealed that, to the extent that participants had a traditional gender ideology, they exhibited greater sex-typing of mate preferences. These relations were generally stable across the nine nations.
KW - Ambivalent sexism
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Gender
KW - Mate preferences
KW - Mate selection
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U2 - 10.1007/s11199-006-9027-x
DO - 10.1007/s11199-006-9027-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751541871
SN - 0360-0025
VL - 54
SP - 603
EP - 614
JO - Sex Roles
JF - Sex Roles
IS - 9-10
ER -