Article
Selective Self-Stereotyping and Women’s Self-Esteem Maintenance
Personality and Individual Differences
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
5 p.
Publication Date
12-1-2010
Publisher
Elsevier
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.030
Disciplines
Abstract
The process and implications of gender-based self-stereotyping are examined in this paper. Women displayed a tendency to selectively self-stereotype for personality and physical traits such that they endorsed positive stereotypic traits and denied negative traits as descriptive of the self and closest women friends. However, negative traits were endorsed as descriptive of women in general. Cognitive stereotypes were endorsed as more descriptive of all women than of the general university student. The tendency to selectively self-stereotype on physical traits was positively associated with appearance, social, and performance self-esteem. The results are discussed for their theoretical and practical implications.
Citation Information
Debra Oswald and Kristine M. Chapleau. "Selective Self-Stereotyping and Women’s Self-Esteem Maintenance" Personality and Individual Differences (2010) ISSN: 0191-8869 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/debra-oswald/11/
Accepted version. Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 49, No. 8 (December 2010): 918-922. DOI.
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences, VOL 49, ISSUE 8, December 2010, DOI.