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LUNA-BERNAL, Alejandro César Antonio  y  LACA-AROCENA, Francisco Augusto. Ambivalent Sexism and Conflict Handling Styles in High School Students. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.15, pp.182-209. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v8i15.296.

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between sexism (hostile and benevolent) and conflict styles (aggressive, cooperative, and passive) that teenagers reports to use in their conflicts with their classmates men and women. The sample (N = 282) was composed of high school students from the cities of Guadalajara and Colima (Mexico), of 14 to 19 years old. The participants answered the Conflictalk questionnaire, and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory for Adolescents. A Pearson correlation analysis was performed between the variables in the sub-sample of men (n = 126) and another in the sub-sample of women (n = 156). In the findings, on the one hand, cooperative and passive styles were correlated positively with benevolent sexism, and aggressive style correlated positively with hostile sexism, in conflicts between men and women. On the other hand, the aggressive style was correlated positively with hostile sexism, in conflicts among women. These findings suggest that male teenagers with greater benevolent sexist beliefs and attitudes tend to manifest greater accommodating, cooperative and / or avoidant attitudes and behaviors toward their female classmates when they have conflicts with them. By contrast, male adolescent who have higher hostile sexist beliefs and attitudes tend to show an aggressive style in conflicts with their female classmates. In the sub-sample of women, the findings suggest that teenagers with greater hostile sexist beliefs and attitudes tend to present an aggressive style in conflicts with their female classmates. These findings are discussed within the framework of ambivalent sexism theory, and the literature on conflict management in teenagers.

Palabras llave : School conflicts; Hostile sexism; Benevolent sexism; Conflict styles; Adolescents; Conflict resolution.

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