Title: | Gendered self-views across 62 countries : a test of competing models |
Authors: | Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza Bosson, Jennifer K. Jurek, Paweł Besta, Tomasz Olech, Michał Vandello, Joseph A. Bender, Michael Dandy, Justine Hoorens, Vera Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga Mankowski, Eric Venalainen, Satu Abuhamdeh, Sami Agyemang, Collins Badu Akbasx, Gulcxin Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan Ammirati, Soline Anderson, Joel Anjum, Gulnaz Ariyanto, Amarina Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R. Ashraf, Mujeeba Bakaityte, Aiste Becker, Maja Bertolli, Chiara Berxulli, Dashamir Best, Deborah L. Bi, Chongzeng Block, Katharina Boehnke, Mandy Bongiorno, Renata Bosak, Janine Casini, Annalisa Chen, Qingwei Chi, Peilian Cubela Adoric, Vera Daalmans, Serena de Lemus, Soledad Dhakal, Sandesh Dvorianchikov, Nikolay Egami, Sonoko Etchezahar, Edgardo Esteves, Carla Sofia Froehlich, Laura Garcia Sanchez, Efrain Gavreliuc, Alin Gavreliuc, Dana Gomez, Angel Guizzo, Francesca Graf, Sylvie Greijdanus, Hedy Grigoryan, Ani Grzymała-Moszczynska, Joanna Guerch, Keltouma Gustafsson Senden, Marie Hale, Miriam-Linnea Hamer, Hannah Hirai, Mika Hoang Duc, Lam Hrebıckova, Martina Hutchings, Paul B. Jensen, Dorthe Høj Karabati, Serdar Kelmendi, Kaltrina Kengyel, Gabriella Khachatryan, Narine Ghazzawi, Rawan Kinahan, Mary Kirby, Teri A. Kovacs, Monika Kozlowski, Desiree Krivoshchekov, Vladislav Krys, Kuba Kulich, Clara Kurosawa, Tai Lac An, Nhan Thi Labarthe-Carrara, Javier Lauri, Mary Anne Latu, Ioana Musbau Lawal, Abiodun Li, Junyi Lindner, Jana Lindqvist, Anna Maitner, Angela T. Makarova, Elena Makashvili, Ana Malayeri, Shera Malik, Sadia Mancini, Tiziana Manzi, Claudia Mari, Silvia Martiny, Sarah E. Mayer, Claude-Helene Mihic, Vladimir Milosevic Ðordevic, Jasna Moreno-Bella, Eva Moscatelli, Silvia Moynihan, Andrew Bryan Muller, Dominique Narhetali, Erita Neto, Felix Noels, Kimberly A. Nyul, Boglarka O’Connor, Emma C. Ochoa, Danielle P. Ohno, Sachiko Olanrewaju Adebayo, Sulaiman Osborne, Randall Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina Palacio, Jorge Patnaik, Snigdha Pavlopoulos, Vassilis Perez de Leon, Pablo Piterova, Ivana Porto, Juliana Barreiros Puzio, Angelica Pyrkosz-Pacyna, Joanna Renterıa Perez, Erico Renstrom, Emma Rousseaux, Tiphaine Ryan, Michelle K. Safdar, Saba Sainz, Mario Salvati, Marco Samekin, Adil Schindler, Simon Sevincer, A. Timur Seydi, Masoumeh Shepherd, Debra Sherbaji, Sara Schmader, Toni Simao, Claudia Sobhie, Rosita Sobiecki, Jurand De Souza, Lucille Sarter, Emma Sulejmanovic, Dijana Sullivan, Katie E. Tatsumi, Mariko Tavitian-Elmadjian, Lucy Thakur, Suparna Jain Thi Mong Chi, Quang Torre, Beatriz Torres, Ana Torres, Claudio V. Turkoglu, Beril Ungaretti, Joaquın Valshtein, Timothy Van Laar, Colette van der Noll, Jolanda Vasiutynskyi, Vadym Vauclair, Christin-Melanie Vohra, Neharika Walentynowicz, Marta Ward, Colleen Włodarczyk, Anna Yang, Yaping Yzerbyt, Vincent Zanello, Valeska Zapata-Calvente, Antonella Ludmila Zawisza, Magdalena Zukauskiene, Rita Zadkowska, Magdalena |
Keywords: | Equality Sex differences Social role |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. |
Citation: | Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Besta, T., Olech, M., Vandello, J. A., ... & Van der Noll, J. (2023). Gendered self-views across 62 countries : a test of competing models. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(7), 808-824. |
Abstract: | Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest
that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction processes present in these countries. Using data from 62 countries (N = 28,640), we examine
binary gender gaps in agentic and communal self-views as a function of country-level objective gender equality (the Global
Gender Gap Index) and subjective distributions of social power (the Power Distance Index). Findings show that in more egalitarian countries, gender gaps in agency are smaller and gender gaps in communality are larger. These patterns are driven primarily
by cross-country differences in men’s self-views and by the Power Distance Index (PDI) more robustly than the Global Gender
Gap Index (GGGI). We consider possible causes and implications of these findings. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121118 |
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