Religious tendency and gender roles: Predictors of the attitudes toward women's work roles?

Sevim S.

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY, cilt.34, sa.1, ss.77-86, 2006 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.1.77
  • Dergi Adı: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.77-86
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: gender roles, women's work roles, religious tendency, COLLEGE-STUDENTS, FAMILY ROLES, VALUES
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The purpose of this study was to investigate if religious tendency and gender roles predicted attitudes of Turkish university students towards women's work roles. ne study was conducted with 138 students from the Educational Sciences faculty of Ankara University. The Attitude Towards Women's Work Roles Scale (Kuzgun & Sevin, 2004), Religious Tendency Scale (Onay, 1997, 2002), and Bern Sex-Role Inventory (Bem, 1981) were the tools employed in order to collect data. The findings revealed that the thought dimension of religious tendency, feminine and androgynous gender roles significantly predicted attitudes towards women's work roles.