Gender Role Attitudes among Higher Education Students in a Borderland Central-Eastern European Region called ‘Partium’

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Paper examines attitudes toward gender roles among higher education students in a borderland Central-Eastern European region, Partium. The study uses data from the project “The Impact of Tertiary Education on Regional Development” (N=602, 2010) to identify student self-placement into traditional versus modern gender-role orientations. It evaluates influences of gender, faculty type, social background, locality type, and religiosity via cluster analysis and logistic regression, finding sizable traditional clusters alongside stronger modern self-identification among women than men.

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Introduction

Gender roles

Traditional versus modern gender role perceptions

Gender Role Attitudes among Higher Education Students in a Borderland Central-Eastern European Region called ‘Partium’ Hajnalka Fényes1 • In this paper, we examine the attitudes towards gender roles among higher education students in a borderland Central-Eastern European region. We used the database of ‘The Impact of Tertiary Education on Regional Development’ project (N=602, 2010). We intend to determine what kind of attitudes towards gender roles the students identify themselves with, what affects these attitudes (gender, faculty type, social background of students, locality type, religiosity), and finally what kind of educational policy implications could be relevant concerning our findings. We have used cluster analysis and a logistic regression model, and formulated several hypotheses that were controlled by these methods. Our results show that there are a large number of students who belong to the more traditional attitude cluster in this region, but women more frequently identify themselves with modern gender roles than men do. The faculty-type effect has only been partly detected. We have found that with ‘male-dominated’ majors, both women and men identify themselves with more traditional attitudesand that with ‘female-dominated’ majors all students have more modern attitudes. The effect of social background is contradictory. Those whose parents had larger numbers of books had increased modern attitudes, but the factor ‘regular financial problems in the family’ also increased it. Our next result is that students who live in villages are not more traditional than others, because they live in cities during their studies. Our final result is that churchly religious students think more traditionally regarding gender roles than others do, but those who are religious in their own way do not. Keywords: gender role attitudes, higher education students, quantitative regional research 1 University of Debrecen, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Hungary; [fenyesh@gmail.com](fenyesh@gmail.com) Spolne vloge med visokošolskimi študenti na območju osrednje in vzhodne evropske regije, imenovane'Partium' Hajnalka Fényes • V prispevku preučujemo odnose do spolnih vlog med visokošolskimi študenti na območju osrednje in vzhodne evropske regije. Uporabilismo podatke, ki so bili pridobljeni v okviru projekta Vpliv terciarnegaizobraževanja na razvoj regije (N = 602, 2010) . Namen je bil ugotoviti, s katerimi spolnimi vlogami se študentje identificirajo, kaj vpliva na tevloge (spol, vrsta fakultete, socialno ozadje študentov, vrsta lokacije, religioznost) in – končno – katere edukacijsko-politične implikacije bi lahko sledile iz naših ugotovitev. Postavljene hipoteze smo preverili s pomočjoklastrske analize in logističnega regresijska modela ter oblikovali več hipotez, ki smo jih preverili s temi metodami. Rezultati kažejo, da je v tej regiji veliko študentov, ki sodijo v bolj tradicionalno naravnan klaster, vendar se ženske pogosteje identificirajo z modernimi spolnimi vlogami kot moški. Vpliv vrste fakultete je bil le delno zaznan. Ugotovili smo, da sepri pretežno »moških« študijih ženske in moški identificirajo z bolj tradicionalnimi vlogami, pri pretežno »ženskih« pa se oboji identificirajo zmodernejšimi vlogami. Vpliv socialnega ozadja je protisloven. Študentje, katerih starši so imeli veliko knjig, so imeli izrazito moderna stališča, vendar pa to povečuje tudi faktor »pogoste finančne težave v družini« . Naslednja ugotovitev je, da študentje, ki živijo na vasi, niso bolj tradicionalni od tistih, ki med študijem živijo v mestih. Naša zadnja ugotovitev je, da tradicionalno religiozni študentje razmišljajo o spolnih vlogah boljtradicionalno kot drugi, vendar ne tudi tisti, ki so religiozni na svoj lastennačin. Ključne besede: spolne vloge, visokošolski študentje, kvantitativna regionalna raziskava Introduction Our goal in this paper is to examine the attitudes toward gender roles of higher education students in

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What is the main aim of the paper?

To examine how higher education students in Partium understand and position themselves regarding gender roles, and what factors shape those attitudes.

What data and sample size are used?

The paper uses the database from “The Impact of Tertiary Education on Regional Development,” with N=602 and data from 2010.

How do cluster analysis and logistic regression contribute to the findings?

Cluster analysis groups students by agreement with ten gender-role statements, and logistic regression tests hypotheses about how gender, faculty type, social background, locality type, and religiosity relate to traditional versus modern attitudes.

Oct 15, 2026

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