Religion and Sex as Factors of Individual Di erences of Reification in an Intercultural-Community-Based Society
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Psychological health Sex Religion Violence Intercultural
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2019-11-08Referencia bibliográfica
Olmos Gómez, M. D. C., López Cordero, R., & Mohamed Mohand, L. (2019). Religion and Sex as Factors of Individual Differences of Reification in an Intercultural-Community-Based Society. Religions, 10(11), 621.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyze individual differences of reification in an
intercultural-community-based society while considering the variables of religion and sex in a sample
of 1120 Spanish individuals: 810 women (72.5%) and 310 men (27.5%). Of these, 66.10% were Christian
and 25% were Muslim, with reported ages ranging between 17 and 26 years old (mean age 19.84 years
old). Once the quality parameters of the instrument (reification in community-based intercultural
questionnaire) were determined, we confirmed the reliability and through confirmatory factor analysis
using structural equation modeling methodology, data collection was initiated. The general results
indicate that 87.50% of the respondents had been whistled at while walking along the street on at
least one occasion. The ANOVA results indicate significant differences in sex and religion; women in
the sample suffered greater feelings of reification in an intercultural-community-based society than
men, with Muslim women specifically reporting the strongest results. The results demonstrate that
women suffer more reification issues in their daily lives, with this sometimes due to their partners.
Addressing this barrier to achieving equality between men and women is obligatory, so public and
private institutions still have considerable work to do to achieve this goal.