Abstract

DAMIAO, Natália Ferreira  and  TEIXEIRA, Renata Plaza. Bathroom graffiti and gender differences: what would restrooms tell?. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.61, n.2, pp. 1-10. ISSN 1809-5267.

Bathroom graffiti (N = 989) were collected in three higher education institutions localized in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, and classified into seventeen content categories, with the objective of investigating gender differences in this type of human expression. The analysis used to detect the main differences was the Chi-Square test, with the help of the statistical software SPSS. The most representative male gender categories (p £ 0,05) were presence, sports, insult, and humor. On the other hand, the most representative female gender categories were religion, philosophy, and romanticism. The results through this independent research indicate that public bathrooms are considered to be places for the expression of social groups imaginary, as well as for the representation of popular culture.

Keywords : Bathroom graffiti; Gender differences; Chi-square.

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