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Measuring collective action intention toward gender equality across cultures
Besta, Tomasz; Jurek, Paweł; Olech, Michał; Włodarczyk, Anna; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Bosson, Jennifer K.; Bender, Michael; Vandello, Joseph A.Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective efforts. Various instruments to measure collective action intentions...
Gendered self-views across 62 countries: a test of competing models
Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Bosson, Jennifer K.; Jurek, Paweł; Besta, Tomasz; Olech, Michał; Vandello, Joseph A.; Bender, Michael; Dandy, JustineSocial role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction...
Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations
Bosson, Jennifer K.; Jurek, Paweł; Vandello, Joseph A.; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Olech, Michał; Besta, Tomasz; Bender, Michael; Hoorens, VeraPrecarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of gender equalit...
Culture-level dimensions of social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures
Bond, Michael Harris; Kwok, Leung; Al, Au; Kwok-Kit, Tong; Reimel de Carrasquel, Sharon; Murakami, Fumio; Yamaguchi, Susumu; Bierbrauer, GünterLeung and colleagues have revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups. The present research was designed to reveal the culture level factor structure of social axioms and its correlates across 41 nations. An ecological factor analysis on the 60 items of the Social Axioms Survey extracted two factors: Dynamic Externality correlates with value measures tappi...