The thematic content of graffiti as a nonreactive indicator of male and female attitudes

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ID10211155
AutoresJohn A Bates (0009-0008-2064-1784, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, autor de correspondencia), Michael Martin (0000-0003-0762-8688), Michael A Martin (0000-0002-9689-4066, Office of Minority Health)
Año1980
Volumen16
Número4
Páginas300-315
Fecha de publicación1980-11-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Sex Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4499 • E-ISSN: 1559-8519
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00224498009551087
OpenAlexW1993405341
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas11

Graffiti written by men and by women were collected from the public restrooms of a large Eastern university. Based, in part, on the notion that graffiti are accurate indicators of group attitudes, frequencies of graffiti occurrence within 16 sexual and nonsexual content categories were analyzed to determine differences from results of previous research and between content currently expressed in male and female graffiti. Results indicated that women wrote more graffiti than did men, and that women's graffiti were more likely to express hostile, sexual, or issue‐related content. The inability of several psychosexual hypotheses to account for observed differences in graffiti content, and the difficulties inherent in the use of graffiti as nonreactive measures in social‐psychological research were discussed

Art · Content (measure theory · Content analysis · Developmental psychology · Graffiti · Psychosexual development · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Mathematics · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Social Psychology

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