Socio-psychological characteristics of women in anti-feminist online communities

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Abstract

The article describes the socio-psychological characteristics of women actively manifesting themselves in the anti-feminist Internet communities. 85 members of the community were interviewed and 55 life stories of women in the large anti-feminist Internet community of Russia were analyzed. Methods of diagnostics of social and psychological adaptation of Rogers-diamond, the questionnaire “career Anchor”, the scale of measurement of optimism and activity, content analysis and the author’s questionnaire were used. Data processing was carried out using the following mathematical and statistical methods: U-Mann-Whitney test, one-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis using Spearman coefficient. Active participation in the Internet community is associated with the peculiarities of women’s life, intrapersonal role conflict and a decrease in the overall professional motivation. Traditional gender perceptions and sterotyping remain important regulators of the social behavior of members of the studied community and can be considered as a positive factor of gender identity, femininity and special career motivation.

General Information

Keywords: anti-feminist Internet community, gender perceptions and stereotypes, cultural traditions and role behavior, career motivation, femininity

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2019100410

Funding. The work was carried out with the financial support of The Russian Foundation for basic research (project No. 19-013-00369 "Intrapsychic predictors of etiquette behavior of subjects of the educational process in the University").

For citation: Chiker V.A., Svirikhina D.A. Socio-psychological characteristics of women in anti-feminist online communities. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2019. Vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 143–159. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2019100410. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Vera A. Chiker, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Chair of Social Psychology, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7444-6898, e-mail: vchiker@yandex.ru

Daria A. Svirikhina, MA in Psychology, St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: psychology21@yandex.ru

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