Self-silencing and Attitude Towards Women in the Contemporary World: A Millennial Generation Perspective

Title

Self-silencing and Attitude Towards Women in the Contemporary World: A Millennial Generation Perspective

Creator

Manna A.; Ahirwar S.; Panwar N.; Kumar S.

Description

Society, including governments and other social agents, advocates for gender equality professionally and personally. Social media, online trends, music, the manufacturing industry, and many more such agencies create inequality in various unorganized forms. Inequality is experienced by people globally, irrespective of their gender, religion, caste, color, socio-economic status, culture, country of origin, sexual preferences, language, food preferences, political ideologies, and so on. By and large, women, irrespective of their gender roles, become the victims, and society develops a stereotype about them, but they keep themselves silent. From developmental aspects, mankind is a part of modern society but still holds a more traditional and conservative attitude towards women. The matter of surprise is the woman herself finds own self trapped in those conventional social norms and chooses to be silent. Being into multiple gender roles, she never externalizes self-perception (as she tends to judge herself by how she thinks other people see her); perceives care as self-sacrifice (putting the other persons needs in front of her own); silences the self (dont speak about own feelings in an intimate relationship when she knows they will cause disagreement) and has divided self (as she finds it harder to be herself when she is in a close relationship than when she is on her own). Considering the same, the current study focuses on understanding the association between self-silencing and attitudes toward women in contemporary society. For this purpose, correlational design was followed, and standardized tools about self-silencing and attitudes towards women were administered to a sample of 101 emerging adults. The present statistical outcomes revealed that younger millennials (born between 1991 and 96) hold a more pro-feminist attitude, whereas older millennials (born between 1981 to 85) still hold more conventional attitudes towards women (t = -3.58; p <.001). It was also found that older millennials were more likely to self-express than younger ones, who prefer to hide their feelings (t = -1.94; <.05). 2024 selection and editorial matter, Dr. Sundeep Katevarapu, Dr. Anand Pratap Singh, Dr. Priyanka Tiwari, Ms. Akriti Varshney, Ms. Priya Lanka, Ms. Aankur Pradhan, Dr. Neeraj Panwar, Dr. Kumud Sapru Wangnue; individual chapters, the contributors.

Source

Health Psychology in Integrative Health Care, pp. 40-45.

Date

2025-01-01

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Subject

Attitude towards women; Contemporary; Indian socio-cultural perspective; Millennial; Self-silencing

Coverage

Manna A., Department of Sciences, Christ University, NCR, Delhi, India; Ahirwar S., Department of Psychology, Christ University, NCR, Delhi, India; Panwar N., Department of Psychology, Christ University, NCR, Delhi, India; Kumar S., Department of Psychology, Govt. College Jassia, Haryana, Rohtak, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-104034422-4; 978-103298046-1

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596806-7

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