Abstract
La investigación explora la relación entre sexismo y la distorsión en mitos del amor romántico en adolescentes que residen en Centros de Acogida de Menores en Valencia (España). El diseño de investigación fue descriptivo transversal con una muestra de 147 adolescentes. Los resultados reflejan una relación estadísticamente significativa que indica que, a mayor sexismo en los y las adolescentes, mayores son las distorsiones románticas. Se identificaron mayores niveles de sexismo hacia las mujeres y mitos del amor romántico en chicos, mientras que las mujeres mostraron mayores puntuaciones en las actitudes sexistas hacia los hombres. Se concluye que la vivencia de situaciones de violencia familiar no tiene un efecto significativo en la adopción de actitudes y creencias sexistas y románticas idealizadas en adolescentes institucionalizados.
Highlights
Despite of prolific research literature on sexist beliefs and attitudes in adults and its relationship to additional variables, such as perpetration of gender violence (Gibbons et al, 2011), gender roles and stereotypes (Glick et al, 2015), sexual harassment (Russell & Trigg, 2004), rape myth belief (Davies et al, 2012), there is scarce evidence on adolescence and data is lacking on this problematic in institutionalised infancy and adolescence
The objectives of the present study are: (1) to analyse the relationship between sexism and internalization of false ideals about romantic love in adolescents that have been separated from their origin families and live in residential care facilities; (2) to identify the association between experiences of family and partner violence to sexism and romantic love myths; and (3) to identify the impact of age and gender on these factors
Results from the study showed high levels of sexist attitudes and romantic love myths in adolescents living in residential care. These results provide further support to previous research (Steinlin et al, 2017; Van Vugt et al, 2014) claiming that adolescents with disruptive socialization are more prone to exhibiting disruptive behaviours and show difficulties to establish healthy affective relationships
Summary
Despite of prolific research literature on sexist beliefs and attitudes in adults and its relationship to additional variables, such as perpetration of gender violence (Gibbons et al, 2011), gender roles and stereotypes (Glick et al, 2015), sexual harassment (Russell & Trigg, 2004), rape myth belief (Davies et al, 2012), there is scarce evidence on adolescence and data is lacking on this problematic in institutionalised infancy and adolescence. Results from Navarro-Pérez et al (2020) reveal that daily experiences of and tolerance to socially accepted sexism have a negative impact on the development of personality in adolescents that are admitted to a residential care facility and removed from their biological family. The objectives of the present study are: (1) to analyse the relationship between sexism and internalization of false ideals about romantic love in adolescents that have been separated from their origin families and live in residential care facilities; (2) to identify the association between experiences of family and partner violence to sexism and romantic love myths; and (3) to identify the impact of age and gender on these factors
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