Gender Role Self-Concept and Gender-Typed Communication Behavior in Mixed-Sex and Same-Sex Dyads

Athenstaedt, Ursula; Haas, Elisabeth A.; Schwab, Stephanie

doi:10.1023/b:sers.0000011071.68830.48

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“…People not only share these stereotypes but also use them for self-description (e.g., Athenstaedt 2003;Bem 1974;Spence et al 1974). The conceptualization of gender role self-concept in the present study builds upon a multi-dimensional model (Athenstaedt 2003) that has been successfully used already in other studies (Athenstaedt 2002(Athenstaedt , 2004(Athenstaedt , 2008. The model includes socially desirable and undesirable masculine and feminine traits (M+, M−, F+, F−) as well as gender stereotypical masculine and feminine behaviors (MBehav and FBehav).…”

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“…The conceptualization of gender role self-concept was based upon a multi-dimensional model that considers selfdescriptions concerning typical feminine and masculine behaviors in addition to socially desirable and undesirable expressive and instrumental traits that are usually considered (Athenstaedt 2003). This conceptualization has been successfully used already in studies with adult samples that investigated relations between gender role self-concept and vocational and leisure sports interests (Athenstaedt 2002) and communication behaviors (Athenstaedt et al 2004). …”

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Gender Role Self-Concept and Leisure Activities of Adolescents

2008

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The present study investigated the relevance of gender role self-concept to leisure activities of female and male adolescents. A sample of 310 Austrian adolescents (14 to 16 years old) participated in the study. Gender role self-concept was measured based upon a multi-dimensional conceptualization that includes positive and negative selfdescriptions. Gender role self-concept significantly predicted female-typed and male-typed leisure activities in addition to participants' gender and partially mediated the link between gender and female-typed leisure activities. The analyses revealed gender-congruent as well as genderincongruent associations between both the positive female and male role self-concept and the gender-typed leisure activities. Self-description with socially undesirable masculine traits was related to antisocial activities like using drugs, but also with socializing and sports activities.

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Section: Gender Role Self-conceptmentioning

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Gender Role Self-Concept and Leisure Activities of Adolescents

2008

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“…1 Gendered sexuality display of gendered sexual behavior is pre-eminently normative (e.g., Muňoz-Laboy, Weinstein, & Parker, 2007). Same-sex groups are often encouraging of gender typed behavior as well (e.g., Athenstaedt, Haas, & Schwab, 2004), as has for instance been noted for the display of sexual prowess, experience and aggression (or at least the boosting about it) by men in same-sex groups. Group pressure by peers is a noted factor in sexual aggression by adolescent perpetrators (van Outsem, 2007).…”

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Doing Gender in Sex and Sex Research

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2009

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Gender is central to sexuality, and vice versa, but there are a number of difficulties with the treatment of gender in sex research. Apparently, it is hard to find a balance between two conflicting needs. First, obviously, it is necessary to make distinctions between women and men, for political as well as research-technical and theoretical reasons. A second requirement, at odds with the first one, is the necessity to understand gender and its relation to sexuality and the body as much more complex than simplistically referring to two sets of individuals. This is all the more necessary when one realizes the possible drawbacks of exaggerating the differences between the sexes (in particular when they are biologically explained), because of stereotyping, stigmatizing, and expectancy confirmatory processes. This essay identifies and discusses 10 difficulties in the treatment of gender in sex research, reflects on their origins, and reviews theory and evidence with the aim to (1) consider the relative strength of gender/sex as an explanatory variable compared to other factors and processes explaining differences between men and women on a number of sexual aspects, (2) inform an understanding of gender and its relation to sexuality as an ongoing, open-ended, multi-determined, situated, interactional process, with the body as a third player, and (3) argue in favor of a nuanced, well-balanced treatment of gender in sex research.

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“…Gendered views of the self also serve to organize the individual's communication behavior (Athenstaedt, Haas, & Schwab, 2004), emotional responsivity, and level of emotional intelligence (Guastello & Guastello, 2003). How do these gendered lenses influence perceptions of and reactions to guilt and shame?…”

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Individual Differences in Experiences of and Responses to Guilt and Shame: Examining the Lenses of Gender and Gender Role

2005

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How are experiences of and reactions to guilt and shame a function of gendered views of the self? Individual differences in guilt and shame responses were explored in a sample of 104 young adults, most of whom were European American. Results indicated that, although women reported greater proneness to guilt and shame, men reported more trait guilt. Heightened levels of guilt-and shame-proneness were observed among both men and women with traditionally feminine gender roles, whereas a more traditionally masculine self-concept was associated with decreased shame-proneness for women. Gender schematic women favored verbal responses to ameliorate the experience of guilt, whereas gender schematic men preferred action-oriented responses. These results are discussed as gendered outcomes of schematic versus aschematic gender role socialization.

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Gender Role Self-Concept and Gender-Typed Communication Behavior in Mixed-Sex and Same-Sex Dyads

Cited by 35 publications

References 52 publications

Gender Role Self-Concept and Leisure Activities of Adolescents

Gender Role Self-Concept and Leisure Activities of Adolescents

Doing Gender in Sex and Sex Research

Individual Differences in Experiences of and Responses to Guilt and Shame: Examining the Lenses of Gender and Gender Role

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