Femininity and the role of gender in unmarried women.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12796
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Aichi Shukutoku University
• Principal Investigator: Kawai Namiko (久保南海子) 愛知淑徳大学, 心理学部, 准教授 (20379019)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ジェンダー・アイデンティティ / 性役割 / 恋愛観 / BL / 腐女子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we divided 20-year-old female university students into three groups, according to their preference of genre for novels and manga. We conducted a questionnaire survey of six psychological scales. Results found that Fujoshi’s specificity can be identified in their views of gender roles, love, and privacy orientation. Fujoshi have a significantly lower tendency to agree with the traditional mother’s role than the non-Fujoshi. Fujoshi and the women who prefer non-love stories perceive the value of their love as lower than those who prefer love stories. On the other hand, Fujoshi and the women who prefer non-love stories place more emphasis on their own time and interests than the women who prefer love stories.These findings suggest that while Fujoshi accept their own femininity, they have negative attitudes toward the gender roles that society assigns to women.

Free Research Field

ジェンダー心理学