Gender or Occupational Status: What Counts More for Well-Being at Work?

Rollero, Chiara; Fedi, Angela; Piccoli, Norma De

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“…Indeed, predictors affecting online behaviours may play a different role in men and women. Specific assessments and analyses (such as moderation analyses, see Gattino, Rollero, & De Piccoli, 2015;Rollero, Fedi, & De Piccoli, 2016) should be considered to this aim.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

Rollero¹,

Daniele²,

Tartaglia³

2019

Cyberpsychology

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According to Nadkarni and Hofmann’s model (2012), a major motivator of social networking sites (SNS) use is the need to belong, i.e., the basic drive to form and maintain relationships. This need can be fulfilled through two kinds of belongingness-related behaviours: information-seeking (using SNS to learn about others) and communication (using SNS to communicate with others). The present study aimed at examining the role of gender, personality traits and emotional competence on each of these two belongingness-related behaviours. A total of 995 self-selected Italian Internet users (67.1% women; age range: 18-56) participated in the study. Results showed that the two online behaviours are influenced by different variables. Among them, the most relevant appear to be emotional competences, as managing emotions reduces both behaviours, using emotions fosters communication, and understanding emotions decreases information-seeking. Extraversion plays a key role as well, promoting both behaviours in women and information-seeking in men, whereas openness to experiences is positively linked to viewing others’ profiles. Finally, men use social networking sites to communicate and express their opinions more often than women. Implications are discussed.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

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Daniele²,

Tartaglia³

2019

Cyberpsychology

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“…Women's greater burden of internalizing disorders vis-à-vis men has also been attributed in part to their overall lower position in the socioeconomic hierarchy of the United States (Elliott, 2001;Mirowsky & Ross, 1995) as indicated by their lower average earnings (Denavas-Walt & Proctor, 2015), occupational status (Rollero, Fedi, & Piccoli, 2016), and until fairly recently, their lower average educational background (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). Despite the fact that men tend to have higher socioeconomic status than women, there is substantial variation in socioeconomic status among men, for whom low-income and education levels are both positively associated with depression (Inaba et al, 2005;Ross & Mirowsky, 2006).…”

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Reviewing the Assumptions About Men’s Mental Health: An Exploration of the Gender Binary

2016

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Many researchers take for granted that men's mental health can be explained in the same terms as women's or can be gauged using the same measures. Women tend to have higher rates of internalizing disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety), while men experience more externalizing symptoms (i.e., violence, substance abuse). These patterns are often attributed to gender differences in socialization (including the acquisition of expectations associated with traditional gender roles), help seeking, coping, and socioeconomic status. However, measurement bias (inadequate survey assessment of men's experiences) and clinician bias (practitioner's subconscious tendency to overlook male distress) may lead to underestimates of the prevalence of depression and anxiety among men. Continuing to focus on gender differences in mental health may obscure significant within-gender group differences in men's symptomatology. In order to better understand men's lived experiences and their psychological well-being, it is crucial for scholars to focus exclusively on men's mental health.

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“…assembly lines or continuous-process production) can directly influence decision-making and work alienation (McKinlay & Marceau, 2011), low-status workers can experience alienation even for the perceived lack of significant contribution to the organizational functions (Halbesleben & Clark, 2010). Symmetrically, higher levels of job engagement and autonomy should protect high-status workers from work alienation: some empirical results (e.g., Banai & Reisel, 2003;Chiaburu et al, 2013;Rollero, Fedi, & De Piccoli, 2016) show lower levels of work alienation among professional and managerial workers than among employers, sales and call-centre personnel.…”

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Correlates of work-alienation and positive job attitudes in high- and low-status workers

Fedi

Pucci

Tartaglia

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Purpose -The concept of alienation boasts a long history in the academic literature.However, their empirical relations are not clear. The present study aimed at testing a model of correlates of alienation. Since occupational status plays a key role in alienation processes, such model was tested with high and low-status workers.Design/Methodology/Approach -Participants were 340 workers holding high-status (N=98) and low-status (N=242) positions. Data was collected through a self-report questionnaire. We verified the hypothesized relationships by means of a structural equation modeling, simultaneously tested on high-and low-status workers.Findings -Results showed that individual determinants of alienation, i.e. locus of control, appear to play a more relevant role for high-status professionals, whereas organizational dimensions, i.e. perception of decision making, have an impact only for low-status workers. Relational variables, i.e. work-family conflict, fostered alienation, regardless the status. Concerning outcomes, alienation decreased both job satisfaction and job involvement. Research limitations/implications -The specificities of the cultural context have to be considered. Generalising our results to other cultural contexts requires caution.Practical implications -Work alienation has a negative influence on work attitudes that can be better managed by the knowledge of alienation's correlates and peculiarities.Originality/Value -The study confirms the relevance of alienation for workers' satisfaction and involvement highlighting the difference between high and low-status workers.

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Gender or Occupational Status: What Counts More for Well-Being at Work?

Cited by 28 publications

References 63 publications

Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

Do men post and women view? The role of gender, personality and emotions in online social activity

Reviewing the Assumptions About Men’s Mental Health: An Exploration of the Gender Binary

Correlates of work-alienation and positive job attitudes in high- and low-status workers

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