Gender and agency versus communion at the threshold of adulthood

• Authors: Dorota Kalka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this study was to verify the importance of reinforcing a sex stereotype onparticipants’ identification with this role. The results were analysed as a function of both biological sex (63 women and 65 men) and psychological gender (58 sex-typed individuals and 70 androgynous individuals). In the study the Psychological Gender Inventory was used, as well as a scale measuring Agency and Communion, a scale measuring Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion, lists of sentences containing stereotypes of the male sex and the female sex, and sentences that were neutral with regard to sex. The results showed that feminine women ascribed more female characteristics to themselves regardless of whether the role that was associated with their biological sex was reinforced or not. Men showing characteristics of both sexes ascribed a similar level of unmitigated communion and agency to themselves irrespective of whether the sex stereotype was reinforced or not

Keywords

EN

psychological gender; agency; communion; early adulthood

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 444-452

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-12-16

Contributors

author

Dorota Kalka

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, Polna 16/20, 81-745 Sopot, Poland;

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ppb-2014-0054