Gender and social representations: dual sexual pattern as a function of religion and political opinion

Abstract

The non-experimental study presented sought to identify and characterize pre-matrimonial sexual standards at an individual and social level and analyze these norms as a function of sex, religion and political opinion in a sample of 308 graduate students. The results point to the adherence to the double standard at an individual level in a tenuous form, gathering more consensus in its social form, i.e. in the perception of moral duplicity within the judgments and evaluations of sexual behavior by society in general. The analysis of the influence of religion and political opinion on social representations of pre-matrimonial sexuality highlighted the fact that,, despite religious factors and conservative political opinions are negatively associated to experience and permissiveness of sexual attitudes, there is a common tendency within religious and political groups towards the adherence to the sexual double- standard both at an individual and social form (...)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v22i2.351