Abstract
Recent research on Muslim populations has offered interesting but limited insights about values preferences. This mixed-methods study examines the prevalence of support for patriarchy among a sample of religious Muslim university students in Southern Thailand using items from the World Values Survey. It also investigates the durability of these preferences by examining correlations between support or opposition to patriarchal values with preferences towards courtship practices, and elements that influence respondents’ views on gender roles, particularly related to the contemporary socio-economic and political situation facing the Muslim minority of Southern Thailand.
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As of the semester of April 2016, the university had a gender makeup of 66% female. The female majority of our sample was thus higher than their overall representativeness in the university.
It should also be noted that although we only included respondents aged 19–25 among the peer comparison populations from World Values Study respondents, the gender representation was not similar. Among the WVS populations, gender representation was tended to be approximately 50% female and 50% male.
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Sateemae, M., Abdel-Monem, T. & Sateemae, S. Investigating preferences for patriarchal values among Muslim university students in southern Thailand. Cont Islam 11, 81–101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-017-0386-6
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