Boer, Aline de (2024) sexual Individuals’ Coping with Meta-Stereotypes: Does Self-Affirmation Reduce the Relation Between Negative Personalized Meta-Stereotyping, Self-Acceptance of Sexuality, and Internalized Heterosexism? Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Asexuality is an understudied sexual orientation. Little is known about how asexual individuals’ expectations about negative stereotypes in regard to their asexuality (i.e., negative personalized meta-stereotyping) affect them. Our aim was to investigate the relationships between negative personalized meta-stereotyping, self-acceptance of sexuality and internalized heterosexism in asexual individuals. Additionally, we examined whether a self-affirmation intervention attenuated these relationships. A total of 342 self-identified asexual individuals, recruited from social media, filled in an online questionnaire. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention condition (n = 165) or the control condition (n = 177). Contrary to our expectations, we found no significant relations between negative personalized meta-stereotyping and both self-acceptance of sexuality and internalized heterosexism. Additionally, the self-affirmation intervention did not show the expected attenuating effect. However, exploratory analysis revealed that participants strongly identifying as asexual (N = 186, nintervention = 84, ncondition = 102) were affected by the self-affirmation intervention more in line with our expectations. The study contributes to the understanding of the interplay between meta-stereotyping, self-affirmation, and asexuality. More broadly, the study contributes to the understanding and visibility of asexual experiences and may stimulate further research on asexuality.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gordijn, E.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 10:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3891 |
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