School of Psychology, University of Auckland.
Department of Psychology, York University.
J Fam Psychol. 2021 Dec;35(8):1043-1052. doi: 10.1037/fam0000834. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
The current research examined whether men's hostile sexism was a risk factor for family-based aggression during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in which families were confined to the home for 5 weeks. Parents who had reported on their sexist attitudes and aggressive behavior toward intimate partners and children prior to the COVID-19 pandemic completed assessments of aggressive behavior toward their partners and children during the lockdown (N = 362 parents of which 310 were drawn from the same family). Accounting for pre-lockdown levels of aggression, men who more strongly endorsed hostile sexism reported greater aggressive behavior toward their intimate partners and their children during the lockdown. The contextual factors that help explain these longitudinal associations differed across targets of family-based aggression. Men's hostile sexism predicted greater aggression toward intimate partners when men experienced low power during couples' interactions, whereas men's hostile sexism predicted greater aggressive parenting when men reported lower partner-child relationship quality. Novel effects also emerged for benevolent sexism. Men's higher benevolent sexism predicted lower aggressive parenting, and women's higher benevolent sexism predicted greater aggressive behavior toward partners, irrespective of power and relationship quality. The current study provides the first longitudinal demonstration that men's hostile sexism predicts residual changes in aggression toward both intimate partners and children. Such aggressive behavior will intensify the health, well-being, and developmental costs of the pandemic, highlighting the importance of targeting power-related gender role beliefs when screening for aggression risk and delivering therapeutic and education interventions as families face the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
当前的研究考察了男性敌意性别歧视是否是家庭为基础的攻击的风险因素，这种攻击发生在全国性的 COVID-19 封锁期间，在此期间，家庭被限制在家中长达 5 周。在 COVID-19 大流行之前，曾报告过对亲密伴侣和子女的性别歧视态度和攻击行为的父母，在封锁期间完成了对伴侣和子女攻击行为的评估（共有 362 名父母参与，其中 310 名来自同一家庭）。在考虑到封锁前的攻击水平后，强烈支持敌意性别歧视的男性在封锁期间对其亲密伴侣和子女的攻击行为更多。有助于解释这些纵向关联的情境因素因家庭为基础的攻击目标而有所不同。当夫妻互动中男性权力较低时，男性的敌意性别歧视预测对亲密伴侣的攻击性更强，而当男性报告伴侣-子女关系质量较低时，男性的敌意性别歧视预测更强烈的育儿攻击性。良性性别歧视也出现了新的影响。男性的良性性别歧视越高，育儿攻击性越低，而女性的良性性别歧视越高，对伴侣的攻击性越强，无论权力和关系质量如何。本研究首次提供了纵向证据，表明男性的敌意性别歧视预测了对亲密伴侣和子女的攻击性的剩余变化。这种攻击行为将加剧大流行对健康、福利和发展的成本，凸显出在筛查攻击风险和提供治疗和教育干预时，针对与权力相关的性别角色信念的重要性，因为家庭面临着 COVID-19 的前所未有的挑战。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
