Attitudes of university students regarding to gender roles and relationship with life values

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate life values and perceptions of genders roles of university students. For this purpose, 324 university students - 35,2% male and 64,8% female; were selected as a sample. Their attitudes towards gender roles and life values were measured by some socio-demographic questions. Scale averages of the female students estimated much higher than that of males. Moreover, the vast majority of the prescriptions showed a statistically significant difference between the genders (p<0.05) regarding their attitudes toward gender roles. A positive significant relationship between the life value dimension and two sub-dimensions of the gender roles (which are gender equality and sex role in marriage) was also observed. The outcomes of this study have a crucial importance as it reveals the views of university students on gender roles.