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초록

This study identifies latent attitudes towards the #MeToo movement through an open-ended survey and analyzes the factors which affect the latent attitudes. To this end, this study had classified the answers to the open-ended questions using a Structural Topic Model and K-means clustering. After splitting the sample according to the gender of the respondents, it performed the multinomial logistic regression analysis. The analysis results are as follows. First, the attitude toward the #MeToo movement classifies its aspects as a) ‘Egalitarianism’ which agrees with both the victim statement itself and the social movement for gender equality; b) ‘Law and Order’ that trusts the victim statement but opposes the social movement, and; c) ‘Skepticism’ that disagrees with both. Second, lower the age, the greater probability to have a skeptical attitudes in all groups. Third, hostile sexism critically weakens the egalitarian attitudes in all groups, but benevolent sexism abates the Law and Order attitude only within women. Fourth, the right-wing authoritarian tendency reinforces Law and Order attitude in all groups, and the social dominance orientation stresses Law and Order only within women. Overall, the forcible and most consistent influence on the #MeToo movement are age, hostile sexism, and right-wing authoritarian tendencies. Since these analysis results are different from the theoretical assumptions about the effects of traditional patriarchal or authoritarianism, additional empirical investigation and analysis shall follow in the future. And it is hoped that this study can contribute to the refinement of theoretical premises and indicators when measuring gender-related values ​​in the future.