Attitude Towards Gender Roles in Relation to Coping among Mizo Adults

Abstract

Gender based roles is assumed to have association with one’s way of dealing with different situations that they encounter in daily life. So, the present study aimed to explore gender roles and coping styles, focusing on accepting responsibility coping style and escape avoidance coping style. It examined the relationship between the psychological variables as well as gender differences on these variables. The sample of the study comprised of 100 (50 male and 50 female) participants studying in Mizoram University which are selected using purposive sampling procedure with age ranging between 18 to 30 years. Demographic profiles and data were collected using Attitudes Towards Women Scale (Spence, Helmrich & Stapp, 1978) and Ways of Coping (Folkman & Lazarus, 1985). Psychometric adequacy and parametric statistic assumptions were checked. Pearson correlation and One-Way ANOVA were applied. The result showed significant group difference on gender role, accepting responsibility and escape avoidance. Significant relationship was also found between gender role and accepting responsibility among the sample.