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Table 2 Descriptive statistics and correlations between variables for men (above the diagonal) and women (below the diagonal)

From: It’s just a breast: an examination of the effects of sexualization, sexism, and breastfeeding familiarity on evaluations of public breastfeeding

 

Sexual Comfort

Hostile Sexism

Benevolent Sexism

Breastfeeding Knowledge

Positive Feelings

Negative Feelings

Perceptions

Behavioral Intentions

Sexual Comfort

−0.24**

− 0.22**

0.21**

− 0.01

− 0.32***

0.16*

0.08

Hostile Sexism

−0.28***

0.34***

−0.19**

0.25***

0.31***

− 0.21**

− 0.14

Benevolent Sexism

− 0.33***

0.50***

− 0.08

0.28***

0.20**

0.10

0.13

Breastfeeding Knowledge

−0.02

− 0.09

0.07

− 0.28***

−0.29***

0.02

−0.07

Positive Feelings

−0.02

0.15*

0.18**

−0.08

0.57***

0.16*

0.35***

Negative Feelings

−0.12

0.21***

0.15*

−0.17**

0.31***

−0.18*

0.07

Perceptions

0.09

−0.14*

−0.02

0.19***

0.23***

−0.37***

0.80***

Behavioral Intentions

−0.001

−0.10

0.02

0.14*

0.20***

−0.27***

0.81***

 Mean

4.55

2.99

3.21

3.58

1.67

1.43

3.36

3.99

 SD

1.17

1.16

1.03

0.56

0.86

0.79

0.61

1.49

 Range

1.00–7.00

1.00–6.00

1.00–5.82

1.90–5.00

1.00–5.00

1.00–5.00

1.00–5.00

1.00–7.00

 Scale

1–7

1–6

1–6

1–5

1–6

1–6

1–5

1–7

  1. Note. Descriptive statistics are for the full sample. Gender coded: male = 0, female = 1
  2. *p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001
  3. Because of missing data on individual items, ns for the male sub-sample range from 170 to 196, and ns for the female sample range from 262 to 308