In an earlier study done at a conservative campus, co-eds with high self-esteem were sexually conservative. The present investigation predicts that the nature of the permissiveness/self-esteem relationship is dependent on cultural norms. (Author)

Attitudes toward the desirability of abortion were significaantly related to sex, college, classification, level of church activity, residence background, family size, exposure to abortion, and attitude toward premarital sex. The data suggest an increasing acceptance of abortion in the future. (Author)

This paper focuses on two issues related to changing attitudes toward the female sex role among college students. First longitudinal analyses are presented in an attempt to document the fact that sex role attitude change has occurred during the past decade of student activism. A five-item scale of attitudes toward the female role used in 1961 by…

College students in a selected sample demonstrated low interest in social issues, and their interest was related to sex and perceived personal meaningfulness of social concerns. (Author)

Undergraduates were asked to make judgments about identical male and female law school applicants. Results revealed no differences between male and female candidates on the direct measures. However, investigators concluded that prejudicial attitudes toward women continue to exist and are expressed in more subtle or "hidden" forms. (Author)

Gender schematicity may be distinct from the quality of being sextyped or of endorsing societal values. Gender schematicity refers to the contents of a map or blueprint of what societal expectations regarding sex roles include. Bem explains that individuals who are gender schematic will spontaneously evaluate information using gender as a…

Degree of belief in rape myths as determined by participant gender, attitudes about the role of women in contemporary society, and factual knowledge of rape was investigated in a sample of 118 male and 126 female college students. The results support the general assumption that a rape ideology exists which involves components of belief in rape…

The Motherhood Inventory (MI) is a 40-item questionnaire developed to study attitudes toward motherhood and the motherhood myth. It includes items related to the control of reproduction, abortion, adoption, single motherhood, male-female relationships, and idealized and punitive attitudes toward mothers. The MI was investigated using 301 subjects…

A survey of faculty, students, and staff at a large southern university identified sex differences in definitions of harassment, in attitudes toward causes, and in attitudes toward university policy. Sex differences reflect respondent's own self-interests within the university and the organizational environment. (KH)

Beliefs concerning homosexuals were sampled, compiled into a questionnaire, and administered to heterosexual subjects (N=795). Factor analysis yielded six independent sets of attitudes that describe the variance in heterosexual reactions to homosexuals. The relationship of sex differences and familiarity with homosexuals to variations in response…

It is reported that responses from university students to an ethical code for athletics showed sex differences in attitudes toward play. (GW)

Female and male college students read a description of a person and rated the individual on 20 bipolar scales describing personal traits and professional performance characteristics. Results indicated married individuals were evaluated more favorably than all groups of unmarried individuals. Males and females were perceived similarly on most…

To measure stereotypes of the 518 most common women's names along six dimensions (Good-Bad, Strong-Weak, Active-Passive, Sincere-Insincere, Intelligent-Dumb, and Calm-Emotional), this study administered the Osgood semantic differential to 250 male and 250 female college students. While previous research has been done on the first three of these…

This study examined the nature of sex stereotypes of occupations as they exist among college students today. The results indicate that sexual stereotypes of occupations are clearly defined and held in agreement by both college men and college women. (Author)