REPRESENTATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERDEPENDENCE IN MALES' AND FEMALES' EXPECTATIONS OF HIERARCHY AND COMPETITION

• Authors: Kusa Daniela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study is focused on cognitive representations of a hierarchical and competitive world in male and female expectations. Framed by social cognitive views of psychological interdependence (Deutsch, 1985), four measures served to assess representations of the social world: hierarchy, competition, trust in others and positive reciprocity. Target phenomena were investigated by comparisons of gender groups and in relation to gender self-concept. An analysis showed a) balanced rather than polarized expectations across all four measures of social world in both males and females; b) highly significant gender differences in the expectations of competition and positive reciprocity; c) females' expectations to be more differentiated than males' expectations; d) gender self-concept to be of marginal influence upon male and female interpersonal expectations. The findings are discussed in the context of experimental studies and non-schematic views of hierarchy and competition.

Keywords

EN

COMPETITION; FEMININITY; HIERARCHY; INTERPERSONAL EXPECTATIONS; MASCULINITY; POSITIVE RECIPROCITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERDEPENDENCE; TRUST

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 193-205
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kusa Daniela

• Daniela Kusa, Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA093619