Atribuição diferenciada de emoções e traços às mulheres: um estudo na perspectiva da infra- humanização

Abstract

This study has as a major purpose to analyze the differentiated attributes of emotions and traits to women, since the infraumanization theory. More specifically analyze the differentiated attribution of emotions and traits to women as a prejudice level indicator, as well as verify the relationship between the attributions and the sex gender of the participants. A booklet was used for such an intent. Besides some sociodemographical information has been accounted by a differentiated attribute scale of emotions and traits adopted by Lima and Vala (2004), who requested to the participant that stated the probable believable frequency the target group experiences such emotions (e.g.: anger, guilty, pain, attraction, joy, love) and can be described by the listed traits (ex: being smart, aggressive, kind, civilized, free, superstitious). The scale is of the kind likert,of 5 points, which vary from never to always; from nothing typical to totally typical. The booklet was answered by a sample of 309 college students, being 52,1 % of the male sex (n= 161), and 47,9 % of the female sex (n= 148), with ages between 18 to 33, with an average of 23,3 years (D.P = 3,80). The application of instruments was performed in the collective environment of a classroom, with an average time of 12 minutes response. Participants were clarified about the anonymity and secrecy of their answers and free permission was granted by all participants. The data analysis was performed by the use of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 20.0) program. Proceeded comparison analysis of mean scores (t-student) between participants male and female. Results showed the phenomena of infrahumanization and of the prejudice relating to women, as hypothesized. It was found that emotions are more appropriate for analysis of infra-humanization because they do not suffer interference from the norms of social desirability. Finally, the tendency to the endogroup favoritism was confirmed by both groups. Based on literature, we have concluded men who assessed women with lower traits are the ones who have a higher probability to practise violence against women.