Noah Tiegs

Concordia College

Faculty Mentor: Darcie Sell

This study investigated how ambivalent sexism and stigma consciousness interact to influence heterosexual relational quality. We explored 1) actor and partner effects on benevolent/hostile sexism on relational quality and 2: moderating effect on women’s stigma consciousness on the relationship between their own benevolent sexism and perceived partner support. One study found that when women’s stigma consciousness was high, women’s benevolent sexism predicted women’s perceived partner support (Mattison, 2017). These results were inconsistent with previous research, thus, we aimed to replicate and extend these findings by investigating the role of dangerous world beliefs and transphobia. We hypothesized dangerous world beliefs would partially explain the relationship between benevolent sexism and relational quality and transphobia would correlate with ambivalent sexism and dangerous world beliefs. Participants were ages 18-35 and in a romantic relationship of at least three months; they were recruited through psychology courses and social media. Data were analyzed using the APIM.