What Dominates the Female Class Identification? Evidence From China

Frontiers in Psychology

Zhijun Zhang¹  Jing Zhou²  Peng Cheng³  Ping Jiang³ 

[1] Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, MNR, Shenzhen, China;School of Public Administration of Guangxi University, Nanning, China;School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China;

关键词: female class;    gender equality;    psychological identification;    ordered logit model;    China;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627610

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In advocating gender equality today, we should not only pay attention to women's social status but also call for the women's psychological identification of class equality. What dominates female class identification? To answer this question, based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2015, this study constructs a female class identity framework from five aspects: the mother's intergenerational influence, female personal characteristics, lifestyle, gender consciousness, and spouse status. In this study, the ordered logit model is used to empirically analyze the impact of various factors on female class identification, and the results show the following: (1) gender consciousness has a significant impact on female class identification. (2) Lifestyle has a significant impact on the situation of having a spouse. (3) Spouse status has a significant positive effect on female class identification. But (4) the mother's intergenerational influence has no effect on female class identification. Therefore, this paper suggests that we should improve laws and regulations to protect women's normal rights, encourage women to establish an independent and self-improvement character, and enhance the class consciousness of women, especially rural women, in order to achieve the overall improvement of female class and psychological identification.

【 授权许可】

CC BY