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This study examined perceived media images of women, benevolent and hostile sexism, gender-role traditionalism, and cultural-value orientations, and identified the attitudinal, cultural, and demographic correlates of gender-role traditionalism.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A quantitative cross-sectional online survey was conducted with 242 adults residing in the Kyrgyz Republic, recruited through non-probability convenience and network-based sampling. Participants completed an author-designed questionnaire, the 12-item Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, the 10-item Gender Role Beliefs Scale, and L. G. Pochebut\u2019s Cultural-Value Orientations Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using paired-samples t-tests, correlations, and hierarchical multiple regression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The most frequently perceived media image was the \u201cmother and guardian of the hearth\u201d (74.0%), followed by the obedient daughter and wife who follows tradition (48.8%). Benevolent sexism (M = 3.01, SD = 1.14) was endorsed more strongly than hostile sexism (M = 1.92, SD = 1.07),\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      (241) = 14.65,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.001,\n                      <jats:italic>d_z<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.94. Across the five cultural-value items, responses corresponding to Pochebut\u2019s modern-culture type were most frequent (48.2% of all selections), whereas traditional-culture and dynamically developing-culture responses were similar in frequency (25.9 and 26.0%, respectively). On the social-relations item, 39.3% selected Option B (the collectivist\/collateral extended-family response), which was weakly associated with gender-role traditionalism (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.16). In the primary hierarchical regression, hostile sexism (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.30), benevolent sexism (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.26), and the Option B social-relations response (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.13) were significant predictors of traditionalism after adjustment for age, gender, education, and residence. However, a three-category robustness check showed that the social-relations item did not explain significant incremental variance beyond the demographic and sexism-related predictors. Education and urban or rural residence were not significantly associated with traditionalism in the full model.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Benevolent and hostile sexism remained the most robust predictors of gender-role traditionalism across model specifications. The findings suggest that family-centered role representations remain salient in this non-probability sample and that traditional gender-role beliefs are systematically related to both protective-paternalistic and hostile attitudinal dimensions. The study contributes quantitative evidence on role expectations in a post-Soviet Central Asian context and supports the need for culturally grounded psychological research.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1857963","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]],"date-time":"2026-08-05T04:53:07Z","timestamp":1785905587000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Stereotypical conceptions of women\u2019s roles in contemporary Kyrgyz society: a psychological analysis"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Kamilla","family":"Turdubaeva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Kyrgyz National University named after Jusup Balasagyn","place":["Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Asel","family":"Moldosh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Kyrgyz National University named after Jusup Balasagyn","place":["Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","volume-title":"The Kyrgyz and their Ethnogenetic and Historical-Cultural Connections","author":"Abramzon","year":"1990"},{"key":"ref2","volume-title":"The Hunter\u2019s Lament Over the Abyss: A Confession at the End of Summer","author":"Aitmatov","year":"1996"},{"key":"ref3","volume-title":"The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition","author":"Bai","year":"2024"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"637","DOI":"10.1037\/bul0000400","article-title":"A systematic review of the ambivalent sexism literature: hostile sexism protects men\u2019s power; benevolent sexism guards traditional gender roles","volume":"149","author":"Bareket","year":"2023","journal-title":"Psychol. 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