Psychological gender of women taking up typically masculine sports activity

• Authors: Joanna Burdzicka-Wołowik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Study aim: To examine which gender scheme is used by women who take up stereotypically masculine sports activity and to obtain an answer to the question of whether these subjects achieve higher results on the masculinity scale and lower results in femininity than women who practise other sports and women who do not take up any sports activity. Do women who practise masculine sports achieve a higher sports class and self-evaluate their results better if they identify with a masculine image?Material and methods: 90 women participated in the research: 30 sportswomen who practise masculine sports (judo, boxing, wrestling); 30 women training in gymnastics, swimming and basketball; and 30 women not taking up any sports activity. The research utilized the inventory of psychological gender assessment (IPP) by Kuczynska and a questionnaire prepared by the author.Results: The analysis of the results revealed that individuals taking up sports activity are to a large extent androgynic, while as far as masculine sports are concerned, a masculine gender scheme dominates. Women practising masculine sports gain significantly higher masculinity indices and lower femininity indices when compared to the remaining subjects. Simultaneously it was not proved whether individuals with a higher intensity of masculinity achieved a higher sports class or whether they self-evaluated their sports skills better.Conclusions: Women that take part in sport activities considered by society as masculine, identify themselves with masculine and androgynic gender schema.

Keywords

EN

Psychological gender; Women; Masculine sport; Sports activity

• Publisher: Versita
• Journal: Biomedical Human Kinetics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 24-28

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2012

online

19 - 4 - 2012

Contributors

author

Joanna Burdzicka-Wołowik

• Faculty of Physical Education and Sport in Biala Podlaska, Department of Psychology, The Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10101-012-0005-1