Niveles de excitación e inhibición sexual y su asociación con estereotipos de género en mujeres universitarias de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The present study aimed to better understand the interaction among gender stereotypes and sexual response and to identify the relation between the levels of sexual excitation/inhibition and marianismo in university female students in the city of Cuenca. A total of 186 under graduated women belonging to 10 faculties participated in this study. The Marianismo Beliefs Scale (Castillo et al., 2010) was used that addresses the five basic pillars of marianismo: family pillar, virtuosity and chastity model, submissiveness to others, the self-silencing to keep harmony and the spiritual pillar. Also, it was used the Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales-Short Form (SIS/SES-SF) developed by Carpenter, et al. (2011) which consist in 14 items distributed in three sub-scales: (1) sexual excitation scale (SES); (2) sexual inhibition scale (SIS-1); and (3) sexual inhibition scale- 2 (SIS-2). It was found that as lower excitation, higher scores in all the dimensions of marianismo. Moreover it was found higher levels of excitability, medium levels of inhibition out of fear to failure and lower levels of inhibition out of fear to consequences. These results imply the high necessity to know the relation between excitation/inhibition and the consequences in the pillars of marianismo, and the importance of the perspective of the new generations towards these topics.