In a recent post, I found that people who believed that they were treated with "less courtesy or respect than other people" were more likely to vote for Trump in 2016 (and probably 2020). This post will look at it from another direction: who is more likely to think that they are treated with less respect?* I considered race, sex, age, and education. My expectations were that black people, younger people, men, and less educated people would be more likely to perceive disrespect. Age turned out to be the most important factor, followed by race, with no clear differences by education and sex. But although the overall average is about the same for men and women, there is an interaction with age:
Young men perceive more disrespect than young women, but middle-aged women perceive more disrespect than middle-aged men. Or looking at it in terms of the relation with age, perceived disrespect declines steadily with age for me, but stays about the same or even increases until about age 40 or 50 for women and then declines. There's also an interaction between education and sex: education makes a difference among men (less educated men perceive more disrespect), but not as much (maybe not at all) among women. There are also interactions involving race: black men perceive more disrespect than black women. In fact, the means for white men, white women, and black women are very close, and are consistent with the hypothesis that race doesn't make any difference among women. Finally, there's an interaction between race and education: among whites, people with college degrees perceive less disrespect; among blacks, there's no clear difference. I looked at possible interactions between race and age, and education and age, but found no evidence of them. I also looked at the possibility of a three-way interaction between race, sex, and education, but the numbers are too small to say anything definite.
A belief that you are treated with less respect than other people could reflect experience--you really are treated with less respect--or greater sensitivity--you are more likely to interpret the same treatment as disrespect. The group differences probably reflect a mix of both, but there's no way to distinguish them in these data.
*In my previous post, I asked "whether the association involves support for conservatism in general, or a specific kind of populist conservatism... I'll try to shed light on that by looking at the association with various political views." I did that analysis, and found that among people with college degrees, feeling that you are treated with less respect is generally associated with more conservative views, but it's not possible to be more specific, partly because the number of cases isn't that large and partly because the GSS questions on politics aren't very well suited to identifying populist conservatism.
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