Contingencies of Self-Worth and Global Self-Esteem Among College Women: The Role of Masculine and Feminine Traits Endorsement

Mandal, Eugenia; Moroń, Marcin

doi:10.32872/spb.v14i1.33507

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“…Our present research corroborates these findings, with adolescent girls scoring higher on this measure than boys. Research on the relation between gender role self-concept and academic contingent self-esteem is scarce, though one study using an adult sample found no association between these constructs (Mandal & Moroń, 2019). We hypothesized that students who see themselves as having more instrumental characteristics may also place less importance on academic pursuits.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…However, the relation between gender role self-concept and contingent selfesteem is less established. An investigation on women in Poland did not find an association between masculinity, as measured by an adaptation of the BSRI (Bem, 1974), and academic contingent self-esteem (Mandal & Moroń, 2019), but research with adolescents in schools is needed.…”

Section: Academic Contingent Self-esteemmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem

2022

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Gender differences in school are often discussed in reference to a particular type of masculinity, negative masculinity, which is often conceptualized as detrimental to success. Another type of masculinity, instrumentality, has rarely been studied in schools even though instrumental characteristics are often exalted outside the academic context. The current study focuses on potential benefits that students may reap from instrumentality. The extent to which an instrumental self-concept is directly and indirectly associated with achievement motivation and self-esteem was examined for adolescent boys and girls in a structural equation model (SEM). A sample of German ninth graders (N = 355) completed self-report measures pertaining to their gender role self-concept, hope for success, fear of failure, and global and academic contingent self-esteem. The SEM revealed that instrumentality was associated with lower fear of failure and higher hope for success for both male and female adolescents. High scores in instrumentality were associated with greater self-esteem and lower academic contingent self-esteem. The association between instrumentality and global self-esteem was stronger for adolescent girls, and the indirect association between instrumentality and fear of failure through global self-esteem was significant only for girls. Results indicate that instrumentality can be an asset for students and that female students especially reap the benefits of an instrumental self-concept. The results are discussed in reference to the dangers of emphasizing solely the association between negative masculinity and academic failure, and the importance of studying relations with gender role self-concept separately for male and female adolescents.

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Section: Academic Contingent Self-esteemmentioning

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Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem

2022

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“…Religious people in religious cultures self-enhance in areas essential to their self-concept more than their counterparts in secular cultural contexts (Sedikides and Gebauer 2020;Joshanloo and Gebauer 2019). In a Polish sample, experience of God's love was one of the conditions for self-esteem in women (Mandal and Moroń 2019). On the other hand, some studies suggest that individuals who are more religiously involved have less positive self-worth (Krause 1995).…”

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The Loss of Self-Dignity and Anger among Polish Young Adults: The Moderating Role of Religiosity

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Does the way we think or feel about ourselves have an impact on our anger-based reactions? Is the direction and strength of this relationship direct, or affected by other factors as well? Given that there is a lack of research on the loss of self-dignity and anger, the first aim of the present study consisted in examining whether or not there is a connection between both variables, with particular emphasis on early adulthood. The second purpose was to explore the moderating role of religiosity on the relationship between loss of self-dignity and anger. Methods: Data were gathered from 462 participants aged 18 to 35. The main methods applied were the Questionnaire of Sense of Self-Dignity, Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire, and Religious Meaning System Questionnaire. The results show a statistically significant positive correlation between loss of self-dignity and anger, a negative correlation between religiosity and anger, and no significant association between the loss of self-dignity and religiosity. However, all other dimensions of the sense of self-dignity correlated positively with religiosity. Our findings also confirm that the level of anger resulting from the loss of self-dignity is significantly lower as the level of religiosity increases. Such outcomes seem to support the conception that religiosity may act as a protective factor between the risk (loss of self-dignity) and the outcome factor (anger).

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The attitude toward the use of physical attractiveness – adonization – as an influence strategy among young women. The role of self-perceived attractiveness and contingencies of self-worth

Mandal

Moroń

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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Contingencies of Self-Worth and Global Self-Esteem Among College Women: The Role of Masculine and Feminine Traits Endorsement

Cited by 4 publications

References 113 publications

Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem

Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem

The Loss of Self-Dignity and Anger among Polish Young Adults: The Moderating Role of Religiosity

The attitude toward the use of physical attractiveness – adonization – as an influence strategy among young women. The role of self-perceived attractiveness and contingencies of self-worth

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