Sex as a status characteristic: An examination of sex differences in locus of control

Yuchtman‐Yaar, Ephraim; Shapira, Rina

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“…It should be noted that the implications of the present analysis transcend the research area of sex differences in help-seeking behavior. Viewing cross-sex help-seeking situations as a special case of the more general category of a helping encounter between high and low status individuals, (i.e., male with higher ascribed status than female), similar behavioral patterns are to be expected in any situation where the needy and helper are of different ascribed statuses (for a more detailed discussion of sex differences in terms of status differences see Meeker &Weitzel-O'Neill, 1977, andYuchtman-Yaar &Shapira, 1981). Thus, when the individual in need of help is of the lower status, he or she is expected to engage in overly dependent behavior (i.e., high degree of help seeking).…”

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Good looks may help: Effects of helper's physical attractiveness and sex of helper on males' and females' help-seeking behavior.

Nadler¹,

Shapira²,

Ben-Itzhak³

1982

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good looks may help: Effects of helper's physical attractiveness and sex of helper on males' and females' help-seeking behavior.

Nadler¹,

Shapira²,

Ben-Itzhak³

1982

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Gender differences in personality: Biological and/or psychological?

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The results of three empirical studies are reported in which the hypothesis is tested that diferences in personality variables between the morphophenotype sexes can be explained by psychological sex-role orientation variables. Furthermore, it was expected that normative sex-role orientations (measured with the SRO-Sand the A WS-S Scales) and gender-related self-concepts (femininity, masculinity, and androgyny measured with a modijied BSRI) explain more variance in personality variables than morphophenotype sex. Besides these sex-role orientation variables, test and questionnaire data on verbal fluency, spatial reasoning, self-concept, anxiety, and aggressiveness were obtained in Study I from 50 young adults and their same-sex parents; in Study 11, data on verbal fluency, spatial reasoning, self-concept, anxiety, and neuroticism were obtained from 120 university students; and in Study 111, data on anxiety, locus of control, and Machiavellianism were obtained from 226 university students. The results confirm both hypotheses for the two aspects of intelligence studied, domain-specijic self-concepts, diferent aspects of anxiety and aggressiveness, neuroticism, powerful others'externality in locus of control, and Machiavellianism. For all these personality variables the efect sizes of the psychological gender variables were larger than those of morphophenotype sex and reached medium to large values.

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Sex-related differences in the aspirations of high school students

Danziger

1983

Sex Roles

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Sex as a status characteristic: An examination of sex differences in locus of control

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Good looks may help: Effects of helper's physical attractiveness and sex of helper on males' and females' help-seeking behavior.

Good looks may help: Effects of helper's physical attractiveness and sex of helper on males' and females' help-seeking behavior.

Gender differences in personality: Biological and/or psychological?

Sex-related differences in the aspirations of high school students

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