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This research aims to explore how conservative ideologies and personal beliefs influence internalized misogyny in women.

April 10, 2026

Conservative ideologies and internalized misogyny in women: an exploratory examination of right-wing authoritarianism, conservative values and personal justice beliefs / Ideologías conservadoras y misoginia internalizada en las mujeres: un análisis exploratorio del autoritarismo, los valores conservadores y las creencias personales de justicia

Key Points

This research aims to explore how conservative ideologies and personal beliefs influence internalized misogyny in women.
Conducted two studies in Greece assessing the relationship between conservative ideologies and internalized misogyny.
Study 1 evaluated right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and its predictive power on internalized misogyny dimensions with a sample of 251 participants.
Study 2 examined conservative values and their association with internalized misogyny using a sample of 197 participants.
Investigated the moderating role of personal belief in a just world (PBJW) in mitigating the effects of ideological beliefs.
Study 1 revealed that RWA predicted all dimensions of internalized misogyny, especially distrust of women, with PBJW exhibiting a moderating effect.
Study 2 showed conservative values strongly correlated with devaluing women, again highlighting the moderating role of PBJW.
Overall findings suggest PBJW serves as a protective factor against internalized misogyny associated with conservative ideologies.

Abstract

The current research examines the relationship between conservative ideologies, personal belief in a just world (PBJW) and internalized misogyny. Two studies in Greece assessed whether right-wing authoritarianism (RWA; Study 1) and conservative values (Study 2) predict the three subdimensions of the Internalized Misogyny Scale (IMS) — devaluing women, distrusting women and valuing men — and whether PBJW moderates these associations. Study 1 ( N = 251) found that RWA predicted all IMS dimensions, with the strongest link for distrust of women, and PBJW moderated this association. Study 2 ( N = 197) showed that conservative values were most strongly associated with devaluing women (with PBJW again attenuating this relationship). These findings highlight PBJW’s role as a protective cognitive framework that buffers the ideological reinforcement of misogyny, advancing our understanding of how personal and ideological factors intersect to shape internalized gender attitudes.

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Grigoropoulos Iraklis (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d895a86c1944d70ce06bb3 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/02134748261431547

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