Getting along or ahead: Effects of gender identity threat on communal and agentic self-presentations
Sinclair, Samantha LU ; Carlsson, Rickard LU and Björklund, Fredrik LU
(2016)
In Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
57(5).
p.427-432
- Abstract
- When faced with a threat to gender identity, people may try to restore their gender status by acting in a more gender-typical manner. The present research investigated effects of gender identity threat on self-presentations of agentic and communal traits in a Swedish and an Argentine sample (N = 242). Under threat (vs. affirmation), Swedish women deemphasized agentic traits (d [95 % CI] = -0.41 [-0.93, 0.11]), Argentine women increased their emphasis on communal traits (d = 0.44 [-0.08, 0.97]), and Argentine men increased their emphasis on agentic traits (d = 0.49 [-0.03, 1.01]). However, Swedish men did not appear to be affected by the threat regarding agentic (d = 0.04 [-0.47, 0.55]) or communal traits (d = 0.23 [-0.29, 0.74]). The... (More)
- When faced with a threat to gender identity, people may try to restore their gender status by acting in a more gender-typical manner. The present research investigated effects of gender identity threat on self-presentations of agentic and communal traits in a Swedish and an Argentine sample (N = 242). Under threat (vs. affirmation), Swedish women deemphasized agentic traits (d [95 % CI] = -0.41 [-0.93, 0.11]), Argentine women increased their emphasis on communal traits (d = 0.44 [-0.08, 0.97]), and Argentine men increased their emphasis on agentic traits (d = 0.49 [-0.03, 1.01]). However, Swedish men did not appear to be affected by the threat regarding agentic (d = 0.04 [-0.47, 0.55]) or communal traits (d = 0.23 [-0.29, 0.74]). The findings are to be considered tentative. Implications for identity threat research are discussed. (Less)
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- author
- Sinclair, Samantha
LU
; Carlsson, Rickard
LU
and Björklund, Fredrik
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-07-29
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- identity threat, agency, communion, gender differences, self-presentation, self-stereotyping
- in
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- volume
- 57
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- pmid:27461972
- scopus:84979555118
- wos:000383707800007
- ISSN
- 1467-9450
- DOI
- 10.1111/sjop.12310
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 2016-05-26 12:32:59
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