Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The article examines the transformation of the contradictory youth gender worldview, which contains features of both traditional and modern egalitarian views on men’s and women’s positions in the family and in society. The empirical base of research consists of studies done by the author in 1996, 2007, 2014 and 2023. Each model’s structure is represented by three levels — gender ideals, general dispositions and situational attitudes. Research results show that these structural levels change heterochronically, but consistently. An analysis of group and individual contradictory gender consciousness is carried out. The article proves that there is no polarization of opinions held by different groups of young people about gender equality in families and in society. Ambivalence as a characteristic of youth gender worldview is examined. The contradiction of individual gender consciousness is reflected in syndromes of different degrees of incompatibility — in ambivalent and quasi-ambivalent ideas about gender views. An approach of studying and measuring ambivalence on different levels of gender worldviews is proposed. It’s established that the 1996–2014 observation period saw a gradual increase in the number of those who hold ambivalent gender and family views. By 2023 a new transformation trend is identified in regards to general dispositions and especially situational attitudes. There is a sharp drop of those who hold contradictory views and a simultaneous increase of the number of people who support gender equality in the family and in society. All this suggests that the examined period is a transitional stage of ambivalent gender consciousness.
Author: Natalia Nechaeva
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406276031