scholarly journals Sex Role Identity, Communication Skills, and Group Popularity

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Loredana Ivan
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Potential Predictor ◽  
Sex Role Identity

Using two groups of undergraduate students (N = 71) the present paper argues about the importance of sex role identity (Bem, 1981) as a potential predictor of group popularity. The results show that participants with psychological androgine identity tend to use better their communication skills and become popular among their peers. Contray to previous studies (e.g. Hall, 1984; Saarni, 1999) focused on gender gap in communication skills, the current study emphasis on the importance of the sex role identity (Bem, 1974, 1975) in undestanding the relation between communication skills and likeability.

Beyond sex

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Kwan Cheung ◽  
Alex Lindsey ◽  
Eden King ◽  
Michelle R Hebl
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Influence Tactics ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Performance Ratings ◽  
Occupational Commitment ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sex Role Identity

Purpose – Influence tactics are prevalent in the workplace and are linked to crucial outcomes such as career success and helping behaviours. The authors argue that sex role identity affects women’s choice of influence tactics in the workplace, but they only receive positive performance ratings when their behaviours are congruent with gender role expectation. Furthermore, the authors hypothesize that these relationships may be moderated by occupational continuance commitment. Results suggest that femininity is negatively related to the use of influence tactics overall, and this relationship is moderated by occupational continuance commitment. Design/methodology/approach – In all, 657 women working in the construction industry were surveyed for their continuance occupational commitment and sex role identity and 465 supervisors whose responses are linked with the subordinates are surveyed for the women’s influence tactics and performance ratings. Findings – Results suggested that femininity was negatively related to the use of influence tactics overall, and this relationship was moderated by occupational continuance commitment. Results also showed that women’s use of influence tactics was only positively received in terms of performance ratings when the influence tactic was congruent with gender role expectations. Research limitations/implications – The results of this current study suggest that not all women are equally likely to use influence tactics and not all tactics result in positive perceptions of performance. Feminine women in general refrain from using influence tactics unless they are driven to stay in a given occupation, but they only receive positive results when their behaviours are congruent with society’s gender role expectations. Originality/value – Past research has mostly focused on broad differences between males and females, and this study has shown that there are more nuanced differences that can more accurately describe the effects of gender disposition (i.e. sex role identity) on influence tactics. It also emphasizes the importance of occupational commitment as a boundary condition, which influences women to step out of their gender roles even though they may be penalized with lower performance ratings.

Sex Role Identity, Androgyny, and Sex Role Transcendence: A Sex Role Strain Analysis

1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Garnets ◽  
Joseph H. Pleck
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Strain ◽  
Strain Analysis ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Role Salience ◽  
Sex Typing ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Sex Role Identity ◽  
Psychological Significance ◽  
Real Self

This paper first reviews three different theoretical constructs concerning the psychological significance of sex role related characteristics in personality functioning: sex role identity, androgyny, and sex role transcendence. A new conceptual analysis concerning sex-typing, sex role strain analysis, is presented. According to this analysis, the relationship between sex role related personality characteristics and psychological adjustment, especially self-esteem, is moderated by two variables: perception of the ideal member of the same sex, and sex role salience. These two variables; taken in conjunction with real self-concept, generate five sex role strain outcomes. The constructs of sex role identity, androgyny, and sex role transcendence are interpreted in terms of this sex role strain analysis. The implications of this analysis for current research and for understanding the dynamics of both individual and social change in sex roles are briefly described.

Anxiety Correlates of Sex-Role Identity in College Students

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Cosentino ◽  
Alfred B. Heilbrun
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
College Females ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
College Males ◽  
Sex Role Identity ◽  
Role Adoption ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

The relationships between sex-role adoption, aggression anxiety (AA), and manifest anxiety (MA) were determined by using questionnaire data from 85 college males and 156 college females. Significant negative rs were obtained between masculinity and both anxiety variables which, in turn, were positively correlated. The MF-AA findings were similar to those reported for 12-yr.-old children.

The relationship of sex role identity and social and political attitudes1

1970 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Cottle ◽  
Carl N. Edwards ◽  
Joseph Pleck
Keyword(s):  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Sex Role Identity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Relationships between Sex-Role Identity and the Meaning in Life for a Matriarch

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sook Nam Kim ◽  
Soon Ock Choi ◽  
Kyung Il Shin ◽  
Jeong Ji Lee
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Sex Role Identity

Commitment to Career versus Family/Home Life: Effects of Sex, Sex-Role Identity, and Family Status

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary N. Powell ◽  
Barry Z. Posner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Managers ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Sex Role Identity ◽  
Family Home

This study examined commitment to career, as opposed to family or home life, for a sample of 154 working MBA students. In contrast to previous results for middle managers, men were more committed to their careers than women. However, the effect of sex was largely explained by individuals' sex-role identity. Family status had no effect on commitment.

Sex role identity and self-esteem: A comparison of children and adolescents

Sex Roles ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 25-25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Allgood-Merten ◽  
Jean Stockard
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Sex Role Identity
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