Menstrual Attitudes: The Gender Differences Among Nigerian University Students
Trends in Psychology - Trang 1-10 - 2022
Tóm tắt
Menstruation, a biological event in females, has been observed to cause discrimination for many females, and this may be linked to menstrual attitudinal differences between males and females. This cross-sectional study investigated the gender differences in the five dimensions of menstrual attitudes among 370 randomly recruited undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The mean age of respondents was 20.87 years (± 3.21). The data were collected using standardized questionnaires, analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics (version 22.0), and p <.05 implied statistical significance. The findings revealed that of all the five dimensions of menstrual attitudes (secrecy, annoyance, disability, proscriptions and prescriptions, and pleasant), there was a statistically significant gender difference in the pleasant dimension [t (368) = -3.19; p < .01], with females reporting a higher mean score than males. This suggests that female respondents held more positive attitudes toward menstruation than male respondents. Hence, health education aiming to promote positive attitudes toward menstruation in Nigerian universities should be targeted at males. Ultimately, this will contribute to mitigating negative attitudes toward menstruation and protecting females from the discrimination associated with menstruation.
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