Why Do Women Endorse Honor Beliefs? Ambivalent Sexism and Religiosity as Predictors

dc.authorid Batur, Suzan Ceylan/0000-0003-2073-7598
dc.authorid Sakallı, Nuray/0000-0003-4984-8427
dc.authorid metin-orta, irem/0000-0001-9253-9158
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dc.authorwosid Batur, Suzan Ceylan/ABI-3904-2020
dc.authorwosid Akbaş, Gülçin/HGT-9462-2022
dc.authorwosid Sakallı, Nuray/Q-1854-2017
dc.authorwosid metin-orta, irem/B-8481-2018
dc.authorwosid Ceylan Batur, Suzan/HHS-6367-2022
dc.contributor.author Glick, Peter
dc.contributor.author Sakalli-Ugurlu, Nuray
dc.contributor.author Akbas, Gulcin
dc.contributor.author Orta, Irem Metin
dc.contributor.author Ceylan, Suzan
dc.contributor.other Department of Psychology
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:31:22Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T14:31:22Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Glick, Peter] Lawrence Univ, Appleton, WI 54912 USA; [Sakalli-Ugurlu, Nuray; Akbas, Gulcin; Ceylan, Suzan] Middle East Tech Univ, Ankara, Turkey; [Orta, Irem Metin] Atilim Univ, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description Batur, Suzan Ceylan/0000-0003-2073-7598; Sakallı, Nuray/0000-0003-4984-8427; metin-orta, irem/0000-0001-9253-9158 en_US
dc.description.abstract Cultures of honor, such as Turkey, prioritize defending individual and family reputations, but in gender-specific ways (Nisbett and Cohen 1996). Men maintain honor via reputations for toughness, aggression, control over women, and avenging insults. Women maintain honor through obedience to men, sexual modesty, and religious piety. Honor beliefs support women's subordination, justifying violence against them (Sev'er and Yurdakul, Violence against Women, 7, 964-998, 2001) and therefore should be challenged. Understanding honor beliefs' ideological correlates may inform such efforts. We hypothesized that benevolent sexism, a subjectively favorable system-justifying ideology, would more strongly, positively predict Turkish women's (versus men's) honor beliefs; whereas hostile sexism, which is openly antagonistic toward women, would more strongly, positively predict Turkish men's (versus women's) honor beliefs. Additionally, due to justifications for gender inequality embedded in Islamic religious teachings, we expected Islamic religiosity to positively predict honor beliefs for both genders. A convenience sample of Turkish undergraduates (313 women and 122 men) in Ankara completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, Religious Orientation Scale, and Honor Endorsement Index. Regression analyses revealed that benevolent (but not hostile) sexism positively predicted women's honor beliefs, whereas hostile (but not benevolent) sexism positively predicted men's honor beliefs. Islamic religiosity positively predicted honor beliefs for both genders, but (unexpectedly) did so more strongly for men than women. We suggest that combating benevolent sexism and promoting feminist interpretations of Islamic religiosity may help to empower Turkish women to challenge honor beliefs. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 62
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s11199-015-0550-5
dc.identifier.endpage 554 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0360-0025
dc.identifier.issn 1573-2762
dc.identifier.issue 11-12 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84945162528
dc.identifier.startpage 543 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0550-5
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/663
dc.identifier.volume 75 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000390049300002
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Metin Orta, İrem
dc.institutionauthor Akbaş Uslu, Gülçin
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer/plenum Publishers en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 73
dc.subject Culture of honor en_US
dc.subject Hostile sexism en_US
dc.subject Benevolent sexism en_US
dc.subject Religious Orientation en_US
dc.subject Muslim sample en_US
dc.subject Turkish sample en_US
dc.title Why Do Women Endorse Honor Beliefs? Ambivalent Sexism and Religiosity as Predictors en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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