Keywords
College students -- Attitudes, Older women, Tattooed people Tattooing
Abstract
The study examined how college students perceive older versus younger women based on their tattoo status (i.e., no tattoo, feminine tattoo, or masculine tattoo). A randomly assigned sample of 376 responded to a survey involving a 2 X 3 experiment designed to assess the impact of age (older versus younger) and tattoo status on four dependent measures: credibility, promiscuity, and attractiveness. Results indicate that older and younger women are perceived differently depending on their tattoo status. Not wearing a tattoo may lead to a more favorable perception of older women than wearing one, but wearing a feminine tattoo may engender a more favorable impression of older women than having a masculine tattoo. In contrast, avoiding to wear a tattoo may not be as helpful for the perception of younger women as it is for older women. Also, while younger women may be rewarded for gender role transgression with respect to tattoo status this is not so for older women.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2011
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Musambira, George
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Communication
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003971
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003971
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Raymond, Laura, "A Comparison Of College Students' Perceptions Of Older Tattooed Women And Younger Tattooed Women" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1884.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1884