Sexismo y mitos del amor romántico en adolescentes que residen en centros de acogida

Abstract

La investigación explora la relación entre sexismo y la distorsión en mitos del amor romántico en adolescentes que residen en Centros de Acogida de Menores en Valencia (España). El diseño de investigación fue descriptivo transversal con una muestra de 147 adolescentes. Los resultados reflejan una relación estadísticamente significativa que indica que, a mayor sexismo en los y las adolescentes, mayores son las distorsiones románticas. Se identificaron mayores niveles de sexismo hacia las mujeres y mitos del amor romántico en chicos, mientras que las mujeres mostraron mayores puntuaciones en las actitudes sexistas hacia los hombres. Se concluye que la vivencia de situaciones de violencia familiar no tiene un efecto significativo en la adopción de actitudes y creencias sexistas y románticas idealizadas en adolescentes institucionalizados.

Psychometric properties on a romantic love myths scale: The case of the myths, fallacies and erroneous beliefs about the ideal of romantic love scale

“…The present research took a rigorous psychometric approach to the Myths, Fallacies and Erroneous Beliefs about the Ideal to assess romantic beliefs in relation to our current ing of the love construct. This scale had been previously used in research (Bisquert-Bover et al, 2019;Carbonell & Mestre, 2018;Picado et al, 2019) and practice (Pedrero & Leiva, 2014;Ruiz-Palomino et al, 2015), but no previous evidence of its validity and reliability had been reported. Hence, this study aimed at providing evidence of the scale's rigor and quality for either interpretation of previously published results and future use of the scale.…”

“…Based upon previous work by De la Peña et al (2011), who developed item content and the initial theoretical structure of the Myths, Fallacies and Erroneous Beliefs about the Ideal of Romantic Love Scale, this paper presents a psychometric study of a pre-existing scale which had been previously employed both in Spanish (Bisquert-Bover et al, 2019;Carbonell & Mestre, 2018;Pedrero & Leiva, 2014;Picado et al, 2019;Ruiz-Palomino et al, 2015) and Mexican (Galicia et al, 2019) samples. The factorial structure of the scale was best represented by the one-factor solution, in which all 18 items except for item 4, which showed a low and statistically non-significant (p > .05) factor loading, were collapsed onto a single factor of romantic beliefs, in contrast to the original authors' proposed four-factor structure.…”

“…These romantic beliefs have been related to different factors in the academic literature including sociodemographic variables such as gender, age, or having a partner. It has been repeatedly observed that men score higher than women in terms of distortions of romantic love, both in adolescents (Bisquert-Bover, Giménez-García, Gil-Juliá, Martínez-Gómez, & Gil-Llario, 2019;Carbonell & Mestre, 2018;Cerretti & Navarro, 2018;Marroquí & Cervera, 2014;Nava-Reyes et al, 2018;Rodríguez-Castro, Lameiras-Fernández, CarreraFernández, & Vallejo-Medina, 2013), and in older populations (Bonilla-Algovia & Rivas-Rivero, 2018;Bosch et al, 2007;García-Díaz et al, 2018). There is also some evidence that distorted romantic beliefs diminish with age and that having a partner has no effect on romantic belief scores (Bisquert-Bover et al, 2019).…”

“…The initial study of scale development did neither test validity nor reliability of the scale, as this development was reduced to item content and theoretical classification of the items into different dimensions. Subsequent studies employing the Myths, Fallacies and Erroneous Beliefs about the Ideal of Romantic Love Scale have covered national (Bisquert-Bover et al, 2019;Carbonell & Mestre, 2018;Picado, Yurrebaso, Álvarez-Mateos, & Martín-Sánchez, 2019) as well as international (Galicia, Robles, Sánchez-Velasco, & Núñez, 2019) Spanish-speaking samples. Moreover, the scale has also been used for intervention assessment, some of which have been presented at conferences (Pedrero & Leiva, 2014;Ruiz-Palomino, Ballester-Arnal, Gil-Llario, García, & Clemente-Carbonell, 2015).…”

Influence of Cross-Cultural Factors about Sexism, Perception of Severity, Victimization, and Gender Violence in Adolescent Dating Relationships

“…Meanwhile, benevolent sexism, a more hidden way of assuming the patriarchal beliefs, seems to lead to a significant increase of gender violence among adolescents [ 80 ] in non-traditional cultures as well as in the traditional ones. The belief that equality for women has already been achieved and that, therefore, no further political measures are needed for this purpose, and would increase the difficulties to really achieve equality [ 81 , 82 ], causes violence directed towards women to continue to perpetuate itself in society.…”