What predicts colombian women's attitudes towards violence against women: the role of culture of honor norms and objectification

• Autor(a) principal: Kaisig, Chiara Denise
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29052
• topic: Culture of honor; Violence against women; Sexual objectification; Self-objectification; Objectification theory; Cultura de honra; Violência contra as mulheres; Objectificação sexual; Auto-objectificação; Teoria da objectificação

Violence against women (VAW) provides a major global health problem and living in a culture of honor (COH) has been identified as a risk factor for women’s health. Additionally, COH was suggested to be a risk factor for sexual objectification, which via self-objectification as suggested by Objectification Theory, might furthermore increase the risk of VAW. Various studies have investigated the effects of honor norms on attitudes towards VAW for men, however, research focusing on women is lacking. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between female and non-gendered COH norms and general and situational attitudes towards VAW, and if this relationship might be sequentially mediated by sexual objectification and self-objectification. A total of 184 female Colombian residents completed the anonymous online survey. The results suggested that endorsement of female honor norms was associated with more accepting attitudes towards general and situational VAW and more self- objectification. Interestingly, female honor norms were associated with less reported sexual objectification, suggesting that female honor norms might be a risk factor for less perception of sexual objectification or lead women to behaviorally avoid sexual objectification. Non- gendered honor norms were associated with more acceptance of general VAW and self- objectification. No sequential mediation link was found. In spite of its limitations, results contributed to research by suggesting female honor norms as a risk factor for less perception of sexual objectification, greater self-objectification and more accepting attitudes towards VAW, while non-gendered honor norms might be a risk factor for self-objectification and more acceptance of general VAW.