Machismo sexual y autoestima en mujeres indígenas de las provincias de Tungurahua y Cotopaxi

Abstract

Currently, sexual machismo has been one of the antecedents of gender violence, and can affect different areas of a person's life, especially in emotional aspects such as personal worth, physical perspective and self-esteem, therefore, the objective of this research project was to determine the relationship between sexual machismo and self-esteem in indigenous women of the provinces of Tungurahua and Cotopaxi. The Sexual Machismo Scale (EMS-Sexismo-12) was used for sexual machismo and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory for adults was used for self-esteem in a sample population of 106 indigenous women. The type of methodological research was based on a quantitative, correlational and crosssectional approach, for which the Spearman's rho nonparametric test was used to compare the information obtained. It was found that sexual machismo has a slight inverse correlation with self-esteem, that is, the higher the level of sexual machismo, the lower the self-esteem of indigenous women in the provinces of Tungurahua and Cotopaxi