| Sumario: | Using latent class analysis (LCA), we examined whether there were meaningful latent classes (i.e. subgroups) in a sample of South Korean women in their twenties and thirties based on their (1) attitudes toward feminism/feminists and (2) self-identification as a feminist. In addition, we investigated whether there were group differences in attitudes toward the self, women, men, and world by classes. The results revealed three classes (negative, positive, and ambivalent) and significant difference among groups. Specifically, the positive class had the highest level of gender collective self-esteem in the membership and identity subscales while it had a lowest level in the public subscale. In addition, the negative class showed higher scores in both hostile and benevolent attitudes toward women than positive and ambivalent classes. For attitudes toward men, the positive class had the higher levels of hostile attitudes toward men but lower levels of benevolent attitudes toward men than the negative and ambivalent classes. Last, the negative class showed higher scores in both personal and general beliefs in a just world than the positive and ambivalent classes.
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