Approach to the concept of emotionality. The emotional stereotype of sexism

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Raúl Carretero-Bermejo
Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades de Cuenca. UCLM Emociónart. Coaching for life.
Spain
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4167-0978
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Alberto Nolasco-Hernández
Universidad de Zaragoza.
Spain
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-6447
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017), Articles, pages 34-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2017.4.1.1545
Submitted: May 4, 2016 Accepted: Jun 12, 2017 Published: Jul 1, 2017
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This work has two main objectives: The first one is to understand the emotional stereotype of sexism, or what is the same, to know the expectations and beliefs that sexism shows about what should be the emotional behavior in women and men from this ideological position. The second objective is to propose a first approach and definition of the emotional dimension of sexism within the framework of the theory of Ambivalent Sexism, that we will call emotionality. For the development of this work we have selected a sample of 1608 students located on the four provinces and five Education Faculties from Castilla La Mancha. 1308 participants are those who have fulfilled all the conditions to join the study. The results show that sexism presents a stereotype of emotional management very clear and different for men and women as well as complementary as sexist ideology itself, where women get their highest score in emotional care and its lowest score in emotional regulation. By contrast, men get the highest score in emotional regulation and its lowest score in emotional care. This sexist emotional stereotype is also significantly different, from our results perspective, of the stereotype of study population that has not sexist beliefs. Our results suggest, therefore, the existence of this sexist emotional stereotype and the need to include a new dimension, the emotionality, in the definition of sexism.

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sexism, emotionality, stereotyping of emotions, emotional management

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