Major figures in the public eye have demonstrated dominating behaviors both in relation to women and as a conflict management strategy. Although several American men meet this criteria, men in Latin American cultures have also behaved this way. Our study's aim was to empirically test whether sexism and dominating conflict styles are indeed related or whether the public figures are the exception. This study examined the relationship among gender, conflict management styles, ambivalent sexism, and Latin gender roles. We found that when individuals engage in conflict with women, they are more likely to use an obliging style, but this relationship is moderated by benevolent sexism such that only individuals with higher benevolent sexism scores use obliging with women. We also found that benevolent sexism, but not hostile sexism, was associated with a dominating conflict management style. Finally, we found that both machismo and marianismo were significantly related with both hostile sexism and benevolent sexism as well as one another, but that caballerismo was not statistically significantly related to any of these variables, separating it as a possibly exemplary ideology for how to be a man.
