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- Title: Spectators' Attitudes Toward Basketball: An Application of Multifactorial Gender Identity.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 228 KB
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One of the most common ways to examine gender within the context of team sports has been to compare differences between men and women based on biological sex alone. Unfortunately, studies that treat gender as a dichotomous variable (biological sex) do not consider the important contributions of both psychological gender traits and gender-role attitudes in explaining spectators' relationships with team sports. The current study, grounded in multifactorial gender identity theory, shows that gender identity traits, as well as gender-role attitudes, extend our understanding of gender and attitudes toward men's and women's college basketball. In addition, biological sex was found to moderate the relationship between instrumental traits and spectators' attitudes toward men's basketball. Sex also moderates the link between gender-role attitudes and attitudes toward women's basketball. To date, the current study is the first scholarly inquiry to apply the tenets of multifactorial gender identity theory within this context. The sports psychology and consumption literature abounds with evidence suggesting that although gender significations may be less limiting in some ways than they were in the past, gender is still relevant (McGinnis, Chun, & McQuillan, 2003; Wann & Waddill, 2003; Wann, Waddill, & Dunham 2004). The most frequently used means for exploring gender within the sports context has been to treat gender as a dichotomous variable synonymous with biological sex (e.g., Fink, Trail, & Anderson, 2002; James, 2002). While these studies provide evidence of general similarities and differences between the sexes, they do not reflect our increasingly sophisticated understanding of gender theory, which recognizes the contributions of additional gender-related variables such as psychological gender traits and gender-role attitudes.
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