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Beliefs in Traditional Gender Norms and Rape Myth Acceptance
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This study examined the extent to which adherence to traditional gender norms predicts rape myth acceptance (RMA) when controlling for sex education, pornography consumption, religiosity, and political ideology. A total of 361 undergraduate students (208 women, 151 men) from a public university in the southwestern United States completed measures assessing RMA, conformity to masculine and feminine norms, pornography consumption frequency, religiosity, political orientation, and sex education content. Hierarchical regressions were conducted separately by gender for each RMA subscale. For cisgender men, the Power Over Women subscale of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) was the only consistent and significant predictor across all four RMA subscales. For cisgender women, conservative political views significantly predicted three of the four RMA subscales, while Power Over Women predicted the remaining subscale. Pornography consumption, religiosity, and sex education content were not significant predictors in the final models. Findings suggest that beliefs endorsing male dominance may underlie other known correlates of RMA, with political ideology exerting an additional influence among women. Results underscore the need for prevention programs to address gendered power beliefs explicitly, alongside consent education, to reduce rape-supportive attitudes and promote gender equity in sexual relationships.
Keywords:
Rape myth acceptance
Gender norms
Gendered power beliefs
Sexual violence prevention
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