Home⇛LPU-Laguna Journal of Arts and Sciences⇛vol. 4 no. 3 (2023)

The Mediating Role of Benevolent Sexism on the Relationship between Traditional Feminine Norms and Self-Objectification Among Filipino Women

Armeen Kaur | Althea Petrache

Discipline: psychology (non-specific)

 

Abstract:

The present study aimed to examine a connection between traditional feminine norms, benevolent sexism, and self-objectification among undergraduate Filipino women. Despite numerous Western studies demonstrating the relationship between these variables as pairs, there has never been a study that examined all three at once, especially in a Filipino context. Specifically, the researchers set out to find whether: there was a significant relationship between traditional feminine norms and self-objectification; traditional feminine norms and benevolent sexism; and benevolent sexism and self-objectification; traditional feminine norms significantly predicted self- objectification; benevolent sexism mediated the relationship between traditional feminine norms and self-objectification. Through a predictive-correlational design, it was found that all three variables correlated with each other, ranging from low to moderate. Likewise, conformity to traditional feminine norms was seen to predict self-objectification through regression analysis. Furthermore, structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to investigate the mediating role of benevolent sexism which was found to fully mediate the relationship between feminine norms and self-objectification. The results were interpreted through the lens of system justification theory



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