On Motivated Role Selection: Gender Beliefs, Distant Goals, and Career Interest

Autor/inn/en	Evans, Clifford D.; Diekman, Amanda B.
Titel	On Motivated Role Selection: Gender Beliefs, Distant Goals, and Career Interest
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33 (2009) 2, S.235-249 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2009.01493.x
Schlagwörter	Careers; Females; Structural Equation Models; Role Theory; Beliefs; Objectives; Motivation; Gender Differences; Stereotypes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Career; Karriere; Weibliches Geschlecht; Rollentheorie; Belief; Glaube; Goal definition; Zielsetzung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Geschlechterkonflikt; Klischee
Abstract	Despite widespread changes in occupational opportunities, men and women continue to show divergent preferences for careers. This research invoked a motivational framework to explain sex-differentiated career interest. From a role congruity perspective (Diekman & Eagly, 2008), the internalization of gender roles leads people to endorse gender-stereotypic goals, which then lead to interest in occupations that afford the pursuit of those goals. Three studies provided evidence for the hypotheses. Study 1 found that male- and female-stereotypic careers were perceived to afford different goals. Studies 2 and 3 found that men and women endorsed different goals and that this gender-normative goal endorsement predicted gender-stereotypic career interest. In addition, structural equation modeling (Study 3) indicated that internalization of gender roles fully accounted for sex-differentiated goal endorsement. These findings thus extend the social role theory framework to consider processes related to self-selection into specific social roles. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10