Table 2.
Means and mean difference in hostile sexism, benevolent sexism and ambivalent sexism according to sexual experience in males and females.
| No sexual experience |
Non-penetrative sexual experience |
Penetrative sexual experience |
Comparison by sexual experience | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F(df) | d | 95% CI | |
| Males | |||||||||
| Hostile sexism | 2.81 | 0.90 | 3.10 | 0.85 | 3.21 | 0.87 | 20.76(2; 1347)** | -0.33 | [-0.46, -0.20] |
| Benevolent sexism | 3.29 | 0.96 | 3.46 | 0.89 | 3.58 | 0.92 | 9.35(2; 1347)** | -0.19 | [-0.32, -0.06] |
| Ambivalent sexism | 3.05 | 0.82 | 3.28 | 0.76 | 3.40 | 0.78 | 18.73(2; 1347)** | -0.29 | [-0.42, -0.16] |
| Females | |||||||||
| Hostile sexism | 2.42 | 0.80 | 2.52 | 0.78 | 2.55 | 0.81 | 2.927(2; 1350) | -0.12 | [-0.25, 0.00] |
| Benevolent sexism | 3.07 | 0.93 | 3.10 | 0.97 | 3.14 | 0.96 | 0.517(2; 1350) | -0.03 | [-0.16, 0.10] |
| Ambivalent sexism | 2.75 | 0.78 | 2.81 | 0.79 | 2.84 | 0.79 | 1.636(2; 1350) | -0.09 | [-0.21, 0.04] |
Note. SD = standard deviation; F = value of the F-statistic of the ANOVA; df = degrees of freedom; d = Cohen's d; CI= confidence interval. *p < .05, ** p < .01.