Interpersonal and Attitudinal Factors in Women's Work Role: Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Autor/inn/en	McIntyre, Teresa Mendonca; Figueiredo, Barbara
Titel	Interpersonal and Attitudinal Factors in Women's Work Role: Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Quelle	(1997), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Assertiveness; Attitudes; Cross Cultural Studies; Cultural Differences; Employed Women; Foreign Countries; Homemakers; Interpersonal Relationship; Nontraditional Occupations; Role Perception; Sex Stereotypes; Portugal; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kultureller Unterschied; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Ausland; Hausfrau; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Non-traditional occupations; Alternatives Berufsfeld; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; USA
Abstract	The last four decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women entering employment. This is particularly true in Europe and although more European women are working outside the home, the patterns of female employment have changed very little. An analysis of these patterns is presented. It was found that women continue to dominate specific fields, particularly teaching and service providing. An investigation of the interpersonal behavior differences among 117 American women from the southeastern United States in three work roles--homemakers, women in traditional occupations, and in nontraditional occupations--was conducted and the sex-role orientation, attitudes toward success, and demographic indicators were examined in order to consider the interplay of these variables with female occupational role and interpersonal behavior. A second focus of the study is on the cross-cultural comparison of the psychological and work variables in women of two different cultures: America and Portugal. Thirty-one Portuguese women were a preliminary comparison sample. The American results showed significant differences between groups in self-perceived interpersonal behaviors and the findings contradicted current stereotypes. The cross-cultural data, although preliminary, indicates differences between the countries in social desirability, aggressive and assertive behaviors, and in sex-role attitudes, which seem to reflect the different stages of economic development. (MKA)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC