AMBIVALENT SEXISM, SCRIPTURAL LITERALISM, AND RELIGIOSITY

  1. Shawn Meghan Burn,
  2. Julia Busso

Article first published online: 23 NOV 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2005.00241.x

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 412–418, December 2005

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Burn, S. M. and Busso, J. (2005), AMBIVALENT SEXISM, SCRIPTURAL LITERALISM, AND RELIGIOSITY. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 29: 412–418. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2005.00241.x

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  1. California Polytechnic State University

*Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Shawn Burn, Department of Psychology & Child Development, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. E-mail: sburn@calpoly.edu

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 NOV 2005
  2. Article first published online: 23 NOV 2005
  3. Initial submission: November 25, 2003 Initial acceptance: January 20, 2005 Final acceptance: April 5, 2005

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This correlational study explores the hypothesis that religiosity and scriptural literalism (the degree to which one interprets scriptures literally) are associated with sexism. Participants were female and male (N= 504) university students who anonymously completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996, 1997, 2001a, 2001b), the Scriptural Literalism Scale (Hogge & Friedman, 1967), and the Religious Orientation Scale–Revised (Gorsuch & McPherson, 1989). Intrinsic religiosity, extrinsic religiosity, and scriptural literalism were positively associated with benevolent, but not hostile, sexism. Intrinsic religiosity and scriptural literalism were positively related to the protective paternalism subscale, whereas extrinsic religiosity was related to the heterosexual intimacy, complementary gender differentiation, and protective paternalism subscales.

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