I am testing whether there are gender differences in the importance of benevolence, ability, and integrity for perceived trustworthiness (trustworthiness is composed of these 3 factors). I have data that asks participants to rate the importance of each factor and want to test whether there are differences in the importance men and women assign to each (e.g., if women think integrity is more important than men do).

I think MANOVA would be the way to do this analysis (with benevolence, ability and integrity as the 3 DVs and gender as IV); however, is there any reason that a repeated measures ANOVA (with B/A/I as the three different points) would be more appropriate?

Thanks!