Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and correlations between variables for men (above the diagonal) and women (below the diagonal)

	Sexual Comfort	Hostile Sexism	Benevolent Sexism	Breastfeeding Knowledge	Positive Feelings	Negative Feelings	Perceptions	Behavioral Intentions
Sexual Comfort	–	−0.24**	− 0.22**	0.21**	− 0.01	− 0.32***	0.16*	0.08
Hostile Sexism	−0.28***	–	0.34***	−0.19**	0.25***	0.31***	− 0.21**	− 0.14
Benevolent Sexism	− 0.33***	0.50***	–	− 0.08	0.28***	0.20**	0.10	0.13
Breastfeeding Knowledge	−0.02	− 0.09	0.07	–	− 0.28***	−0.29***	0.02	−0.07
Positive Feelings	−0.02	0.15*	0.18**	−0.08	–	0.57***	0.16*	0.35***
Negative Feelings	−0.12	0.21***	0.15*	−0.17**	0.31***	–	−0.18*	0.07
Perceptions	0.09	−0.14*	−0.02	0.19***	0.23***	−0.37***	–	0.80***
Behavioral Intentions	−0.001	−0.10	0.02	0.14*	0.20***	−0.27***	0.81***	–
Mean	4.55	2.99	3.21	3.58	1.67	1.43	3.36	3.99
SD	1.17	1.16	1.03	0.56	0.86	0.79	0.61	1.49
Range	1.00–7.00	1.00–6.00	1.00–5.82	1.90–5.00	1.00–5.00	1.00–5.00	1.00–5.00	1.00–7.00
Scale	1–7	1–6	1–6	1–5	1–6	1–6	1–5	1–7

Note. Descriptive statistics are for the full sample. Gender coded: male = 0, female = 1

*p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001

Because of missing data on individual items, ns for the male sub-sample range from 170 to 196, and ns for the female sample range from 262 to 308