1. Social Comparison, Self-Stereotyping, and Gender Differences in Self-Construals.
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Guimond, Serge, Martinot, Deiphine, Chatard, Armand, Crisp, Richard J., and Redersdorff, Sandrine
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SELF-perception , *GENDER differences (Psychology) , *SOCIAL comparison , *CATEGORIZATION (Psychology) , *PERSONALITY , *GENDER stereotypes , *ABILITY , *SOCIAL status , *INTERGROUP relations - Abstract
Four studies examined gender differences in self-construals and the role of social comparison in generating these differences. Consistent with previous research, Study 1 (N = 461) showed that women define themselves as higher in relational interdependence than men, and men define themselves as higher in independence/agency than women. Study 2 (N = 301) showed that within-gender social comparison decreases gender differences in self-construals relative to a control condition, whereas between-genders comparison increases gender differences on both relational interdependence and independence/agency. Studies 3 (N = 169) and 4 (N = 278) confirmed these findings and showed that changing self-construal changes gender differences in social dominance orientation. Across the 4 studies, strong evidence for the role of in-group stereotyping as mediator of the effect of gender on self-construal was observed on the relational dimension but not on the agentic dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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