Authors

• Kachel, Sven (University of Helsinki)
• Posio, Pekka (University of Helsinki)

Keywords

attitudes, femininity, gender expression, gender role, homosexuality, masculinity, personality, sex, speech

Abstract

The PsyCoLaGe data collected in Spain and Mexico is part of the research project 'Gender, Society and Language Use: Evidence from Mexico and Spain” and contains the project's psychological data. The project also collected the CoLaGe corpus, which has been archived in the Language Bank of Finland (for further information, see 'Other Material”). The PsyCoLaGe data can be used to examine, for example, various research questions related to gender, gender roles and gender stereotypes, and it can additionally be used together with the corpus.

The data were used to examine respondents' attitudes and perceptions primarily regarding gender and partly sexuality. This was carried out using various instruments measuring psychological characteristics, which assessed, for example, respondents' views on gender role ideologies, attitudes towards gay men, behaviour-based gender role self-concept, and perceptions of the relationship between voice characteristics and gender. The modes of measurement varied. Respondents were asked, for example, to evaluate whether the sentences presented in the questionnaire were uttered by women or men, whether certain voice or personality traits were typical of women, men or both genders, and whether they agreed or disagreed with statements concerning gender.

The variable labels in the archived dataset include information on which instrument measuring psychological characteristics each variable belongs to. Some value labels of the variables include annotations indicating whether the voice features, sentences, and descriptions of everyday tasks presented to respondents are female‑typical or male‑typical, and whether the presented statement is egalitarian or traditional. These annotations are based on the instruments used to measure psychological characteristics.

The full questions, question preambles, and response options can be found in the questionnaire (quF4041_mul.pdf). The questions were presented to respondents either in Peninsular Spanish or Mexican Spanish depending on their nationality, not in English.

The background variables of the dataset are nationality, gender, sexual orientation and a dichotomous age group.