Doing Gender for Different Reasons: Why Gender Conformity Positively and Negatively Predicts Self-Esteem

Autor/inn/en	Good, Jessica J.; Sanchez, Diana T.
Titel	Doing Gender for Different Reasons: Why Gender Conformity Positively and Negatively Predicts Self-Esteem
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34 (2010) 2, S.203-214 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2010.01562.x
Schlagwörter	Social Behavior; Females; Structural Equation Models; Motivation; Adolescents; Sexual Identity; Self Esteem; Identification (Psychology); Social Attitudes; Gender Differences; Sex Stereotypes; Predictor Variables; Ideology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Weibliches Geschlecht; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Prädiktor; Ideologie
Abstract	Past research has shown that valuing gender conformity is associated with both positive and negative consequences for self-esteem and positive affect. The current research (women, n= 226; men, n= 175) explored these conflicting findings by separating out investing in societal gender ideals from personally valuing one's gender identity ("private regard") and investigating the relationship to self-esteem, through either "autonomous" (behaviors that are freely chosen) or "pressured" (behaviors engaged in due to pressure from others or situation) motivation for gender-consistent behavior (communal behavior for women and agentic behavior for men). Confirming predictions, structural equation modeling revealed that investment in gender ideals predicted pressured but not autonomous motivation whereas private regard predicted autonomous but not pressured motivation. Additionally, autonomous motivation for gender-consistent behavior was positively associated with self-esteem whereas pressured motivation was negatively associated with self-esteem. Thus, investing or valuing one's gender identity was not shown to be costly for the self directly, but to instead influence self-esteem through motivation to enact gender-conforming behavior. Although the present research demonstrates a positive link between some aspects of gender conformity and self-esteem, we discuss how gender-conforming behavior can still have negative consequences (e.g., communal behavior in the context of male-sex-typed domains). (As Provided).
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