Role identities and self-efficacy: Examining the effect of conventional versus idiosyncratic role identity meanings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Carter ◽  
Julie Eve Aguilar ◽  
Gabriela R. Flores
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Role Identities

Multiple Identities and Self-Esteem

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Richard T. Serpe ◽  
Fritz Long-Yarrison ◽  
Jan E. Stets ◽  
Sheldon Stryker
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Multiple Role ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Positive Feelings

Self-esteem is a common concern in our everyday life. People associate high self-esteem with positive self-feelings, behaviors, and outcomes, and low self-esteem with negative self-feelings, behaviors, and outcomes. We explore how individuals feel about themselves in global terms given the multiple role identities (religious, parent, and spouse/partner) they may claim. We anticipate that role identities that are more important to individuals will be linked to positive feelings about themselves in those identities. In turn, these positive feelings should be associated with positive feelings about themselves overall. The role identities are examined as they relate to self-esteem. The findings reveal that both role-specific self-efficacy and self-worth are positively related to global self-esteem. Additionally, more important role identities are positively associated with role-specific self-esteem, and higher self-esteem in these identities is tied to global self-esteem. The findings contribute to an understanding of how specific role identity self-feelings relate to global self-feelings.

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

Social Differentiation, Contemporary Marriage, and Human Development

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANA VANNOY
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Marital Disruption ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Gender Role Identity ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Sex Equality ◽  
Stable Marriages ◽  
And Gender

This article makes the functionalist claim that to be fully achieved, the change toward sex equality must occur in social, cultural, and personality systems and be apparent not only in the economy but in marriage and individual identity as well. The discussion suggests that the high rate of marital disruption, particularly in dual-earner marriages in which partners approach economic and occupational equality, represents a lag or strain between macro changes in society and related changes in marriage roles and gender role identity in personality. Traditional gender role identities, including subordinate and superordinate statuses for women and men respectively, are seen as congruent with earlier societal forms and less congruent with the demands of postindustrial society. In light of social differentiation, the changing status of women, and the loss of family functions, stable marriages are more likely to be achieved only by those individuals who develop strong capacities for autonomy and intimacy in their marital relationships. To achieve this is also to achieve less sex-typed gender role identities.

Role Identities and Person Identities: Gender Identity, Mastery Identity, and Controlling One's Partner

1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan E. Stets
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Simultaneous Equation ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Age Dating ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
College Age ◽  
Person Identity ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
The Relationship

This research explores the relationship between gender identity, the mastery identity, and control over one's partner in intimate relationships. While gender identity is viewed as a role identity, that is, an identity that is tied to the social structure, the mastery identity is conceptualized as a person identity, that is, an identity that is tied to the person. Using a sample of college-age dating couples, a simultaneous equation model is estimated to determine the relationship between a role identity and a person identity, and how these identities mutually influence control over one's partner in interaction.

An identity conflict perspective on female expatriate work adjustment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Yu ◽  
Hong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Work Adjustment ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Domain

PurposeThis study aims to develop a model for female expatriate work adjustment from the identity conflict perspective.Design/methodology/approachThis is a theoretical paper that focuses on integrating the existing literature and proposing new constructive relationships.FindingsWe study female expatriates' adjustment processes in the work domain from the identity conflict perspective. Specifically, we categorize female expatriates' identities in the work domain into their gender identity and a work-related role identity cluster and propose that when gender identity is salient, unsupportive national and organizational cultures will lead to gender–work role identity conflicts and eventually result in maladjustment in the work domain.Originality/valueFirst, we suggest that female expatriates' work role identities can form a cluster that includes expatriate role, managerial role and occupational role identity. We further theorize how the gender role identity and the work-related role identity cluster of female expatriates interact to influence how they adjust to their work. Second, we explore two contingency factors – host organizational culture and host national culture–and explain how they influence the interaction between female expatriates' gender identity and work-related role identities. Finally, we introduce the concept of gender–work role identity conflict and theorize how it serves as the underlying mechanism linking female expatriate identity patterns and work adjustment.

Perceptions of Masculinity, Femininity, and Androgyny among a Select Cohort of Gifted Adolescent Males

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan L. Wilcove
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Adolescent Males ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Sex Role Identity

This qualitative study explored the gender schemata of a select cohort of 13 gifted adolescent males. It revealed these adolescents as having an androgynous sex-role identity. However, the findings identified among the adolescents three distinct constructions of androgyny. The data also pointed out some of the intrapsychic problems encountered by the boys in their sex-role identity development—most notably anxieties about femininity and women stemming from demands placed upon the boys by their awakening sexualities. Finally, the study examined the role of their intellectual giftedness in the negotiation of their sex-role identities. Most of the adolescents employed a sophisticated critical rationalism to construct their gender schemata. However, several of the subjects acknowledged the limits of this rationalism to achieve a complete understanding of these complex issues and expressed an awareness of an asynchrony between their emotional and intellectual development.

scholarly journals Condom Use Self-Efficacy and HIV Risk Practices Among Men Who Use the Internet to Find Male Partners for Unprotected Sex

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Klein
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Risk Practices ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Drug Problems

This research examines the levels of condom use self-efficacy in a population of men who have sex with men who are at great risk for contracting/transmitting HIV. It focuses on the relationship between condom use self-efficacy and risk involvement, and examines the factors associated with greater/lower levels of condom use self-efficacy. The data come from a national sample of men, randomly chosen, who used any of 16 websites specifically to identify other men with whom they could engage in unprotected sex. Data were collected between January 2008 and May 2009 from 332 men, via telephone interviews. Multivariate analyses and structural equation modeling were used to test a conceptual model based on syndemics theory. Overall levels of condom use self-efficacy were fairly high, and self-efficacy was related inversely to involvement in HIV risk practices. Six factors were found to be indicative of levels of condom use self-efficacy: the number of drug problems experienced, sexual role identity as a “bottom,” not caring about the HIV serostatus of potential sex partners, experiencing childhood maltreatment, having confidence in HIV-related information provided in other men’s online profiles, and level of HIV knowledge. Condom use self-efficacy plays an integral role in HIV risk practices among high-risk men who have sex with men. This is true despite the fact that, overall, condom use self-efficacy levels were fairly high in this population.

Relationship of Role Identification, Self-Esteem, and Intelligence to Sex Differences in Field Independence

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Hulfish
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Field Independence ◽  
Perceptual Field ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Perceptual Style

The relationships among perceptual field independence, biological sex, sex-role identity, self-esteem, and intelligence were explored. Tests measuring these variables were administered to 50 male and 50 female volunteers. The results, obtained by standard multiple regression and analysis of covariance procedures, indicate that (a) males are significantly more field-independent than females, (b) regardless of biological sex, subjects with relatively masculine role-identities are more field-independent than subjects with relatively feminine role-identities, (c) self-esteem is not significantly related to perceptual style, and (d) although intelligence has a significant positive relationship to perceptual field independence, intelligence does not account for the sex differential or for the role sex-identification plays in perceptual style.

Psychological Gender, Hand Preferences, and Sex Differences in Book-Carrying Styles

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Alley ◽  
Jeanette I. Kolker
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Hand Preference ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Sex Role Identity ◽  
Psychological Gender ◽  
Personal Attributes Questionnaire ◽  
Hand Preferences ◽  
Item Scale

Individuals with stronger sex-role identities may be expected to show greater conformity to sex-typed behaviors. Proceeding from this assumption, the sex-role status and sex of students using different styles of carrying books were compared. This study also examined whether over-all hand preference or age were related to carrying styles or sex-role status. Subjects completed a questionnaire comprised of the 24-item Personal Attributes Questionnaire of Spence and Helmreich, a 6-item scale of hand preference and a self-rating of sex-role identity. Afterwards, each subject's carrying style was covertly observed and recorded. Most subjects carried their materials in a sex-typical way or in book bags (for which no sex-typed carrying styles were discovered). As in previous studies, men in this study scored higher than women on masculinity and androgyny and lower on femininity. Hand preference was not related to sex-role status. Carrying style was not significantly correlated with any of the predictor variables for men, perhaps because almost no variance in carrying style was observed among them. Women who used masculine carrying styles tended to be older, have greater instrumentality, and a more masculine identity.

Female Offenders: Criminal Behavior and Gender-Role Identity

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol S. Campbell ◽  
Doris Layton MacKenzie ◽  
James W. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Gender Role Identity ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Violent Offenses

Relationship between gender-role identity and criminal activities for 141 incarcerated adult female offenders was examined. Inmates were classified into three gender-role groups: masculine, feminine, and androgynous. Those with either masculine or feminine gender-role identities were more apt to be serving time for violent offenses such as murder than were the androgynous women. Relatively few feminine offenders serving time for murder had previously been convicted of a felony while the majority of the masculine offenders had. Differences were found in the number of prior felony convictions for the gender-role groups.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document