AUTHOR=García-Sánchez Rubén , Almendros Carmen , Aramayona Begoña , Martín María Jesús , Soria-Oliver María , López Jorge S. , Martínez José Manuel 

TITLE=Are Sexist Attitudes and Gender Stereotypes Linked? A Critical Feminist Approach With a Spanish Sample

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02410

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02410

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>This study aims to verify the psychometric properties of the Spanish versions of the Social Roles Questionnaire (SRQ; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Baber and Tucker, 2006</xref>), Modern Sexism Scale (MS), and Old-Fashioned Sexism Scale (OFS; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B84">Swim et al., 1995</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B85">Swim and Cohen, 1997</xref>). Enough support was found to maintain the original factor structure of all instruments in their Spanish version. Differences between men and women in the scores are commented on, mainly because certain sexist attitudes have been overcome with greater success in the current Spanish society, while other issues, such as distribution of power in organizational hierarchies or distribution of tasks in the household, where traditional unequal positions are still maintained. In all cases, it was found that men showed greater support for sexist attitudes. The correlations between the three instruments were as expected in assessing sexist attitudes that tend to relate to each other. Eventually, we found no empirical evidence for the postulated link between sexist attitudes and traditional gender stereotypes. Our results call for the validity and effectiveness of the classic theories of gender psychology, such as gender schema theories (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Bem, 1981</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B60">Markus et al., 1982</xref>) and the notion of a gender belief system (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Deaux and Kite, 1987</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Kite, 2001</xref>).</p>