@conference{
author = "Kovačević, Katarina and Lazarević, Aleksandra and Jovanović, Kristina and Marković, Sofija and Simić, Aleksa and Knežević, Marija and Mojović, Kristina",
year = "2018",
abstract = "Third wave feminism appears at the end of 20th century and compared to its
antecedents, it is regarded as more liberal and recognizes interaction between
gender and other forms of discrimination based on religion, race and nationality.
This wave is founded on the idea that women aren't homogeneous group and that
female identity can be constructed in various ways. The previous studies showed
that positive attitudes towards feminist values and beliefs often coexist with
negative attitudes towards the movement. This suggests that these two groups of
attitudes are different psychological constructs. The aim of our study is to
construct a questionnaire which will measure attitudes towards Third wave
feminism. A pilot study was conducted through Facebook and it contained 48
items which were created after content analysis of the Facebook posts, articles,
and comments read on forums. Last 18-item version of the questionnaire, with a
5-point Likert scale, was empirically tested in three Serbian high schools with a
total of 292 student participants. The questionnaire (named STT) has good
reliability (Cronbach α=.89) while standardized skewness and kurtosis show
normal distribution of scores. Factor analysis was used for testing construct
validity and one factor was extracted (“Attitudes towards feminism”).
Convergent and divergent validities were tested using FWM (Attitudes Towards
Feminism and the Feminist Movement Scale), FEM (Attitudes Towards
Feminism Scale) and HEXACO-60. We hypothesized that STT would show
negative correlation with FEM since items are coded negatively on that scale.
Furthermore, we expected high positive correlation with FWM as they measure
the same construct. Previous research demonstrated positive correlation both between basic personality traits of Openness and Liberalism, and Liberalism and
attitudes towards feminism. With consideration to these findings, we make an
assumption that Openness and attitudes toward the feminist movement will
correlate positively. Results showed statistically significant correlation of
extracted factor on STT with followed variables: FWM (r=.818, p<.001), FEM
(r=-.408, p<.001), Emotionality (r=.238, p<.001) and Openness (r=.183, p<.01).
Differences were found between males (M=-0.645, SD=0.81) and females
(M=0.292, SD=0.823) where females had more positive attitudes toward the
movement (t(290)=-9.054, p<.001). Findings of this and similar research could
serve to the third wave of feminist movement in improving communication with
the public and it could be valuable for further development of movement.",
journal = "Knjiga rezimea, XXIV naučni skup Empirijska istraživanja u psihologiji, Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu",
title = "Development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring attitudes towards third-wave feminism",
pages = "149-148",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_5775"
}
