A confirmatory study of the relations between workplace sexism, sense of belonging, mental health, and job satisfaction among women in male‐dominated industries

Rubin, Mark; Паолини, Стефаниа; Subašić, Emina; Giacomini, A.

doi:10.1111/jasp.12577

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“…The present findings indicate that this may not only be the case for concealing a concealable stigmatized identity, but also for self-group distancing among stigmatized groups more generally. In addition, recent cross-sectional research among women in male-dominated industries showed that feeling a need to reduce femininity at work (e.g., when experiencing sexism at work) was related to lower mental health and job satisfaction (Rubin et al, 2019). Future research still has to examine whether—despite these short run negative costs—distancing may in the longer run indeed enable individual mobility in the organization.…”

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confidence: 99%

Daily Coping With Social Identity Threat in Outgroup-Dominated Contexts: Self-Group Distancing Among Female Soldiers

Veldman

Laar

Meeussen

et al. 2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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We examine the degree to which women in a male-dominated field cope with daily experiences of social identity threat by distancing themselves from other women. A daily experience-sampling study among female soldiers ( N = 345 data points nested in 61 participants) showed women to self-group distance more on days in which they experienced more identity threat. This was mediated by daily concerns about belonging but not achievement in the military, supporting the explanation that women distance from other women as a way to fit in a masculine domain. However, on a daily basis, self-group distancing did not appear to protect women’s outcomes as it was related to lower daily well-being and motivation. The findings indicate that targets are not passive recipients of identity threat but active agents coping daily with the challenges they face, but that regulation strategies may also incur costs. Implications for theories on coping with stigma and costs are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Daily Coping With Social Identity Threat in Outgroup-Dominated Contexts: Self-Group Distancing Among Female Soldiers

Veldman

Laar

Meeussen

et al. 2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…In particular, social identification buffered (reduced) the effects of social class on depressive symptoms. Critically, however, subsequent attempts to replicate this effect have not been successful, possibly due to measurement issues (Evans, 2019;McGuffog, 2018;Rubin, Paolini, Subašić, & Giacomini, 2019). Additionally, Iyer, Jetten, Tsivrikos, Postmes, and Haslam (2009) found that identifying as a student predicted students' greater wellbeing, but that working-class students were less likely to identify as a student or to see the student identity as being compatible with their social class identity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Class Differences in Social Integration at University: Implications for Academic Outcomes and Mental Health

Rubin

Evans²,

McGuffog³

2019

The Social Psychology of Inequality

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University represents a pathway to upward social mobility for many working-class people. However, this distinctly middle-class environment also provides a number of unique social psychological challenges for working-class students. Working-class university students are often in the minority group at university, they are often the first in their families to attend university, and they often feel out of place at university. They also lack the time and money required to engage with other students on campus. Consequently, they are less likely to be as integrated into social life at university as their middle-class peers. In this chapter, we consider the potential implications of this lack of social integration for working-class students' academic outcomes and mental health. In particular, we review recent research that shows that working-class students' lack of integration at university is associated with poorer academic outcomes and poorer mental health. We conclude with a discussion of potential interventions to increase working-class students' social integration at university.

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“…Ostracism creates a context of social isolation in such a way that peers subtly deplete the victim's sense of belonging (Ferris et al 2017). We agree that a sense of belonging is critical for one's psychological health (Rubin et al 2019), negatively affecting the attitudinal outcomes such as job satisfaction, a tendency to quit, or psychological withdrawal. However, we speculate that the need to belong may be less crucial for actual performance (e.g., creative performance and job performance).…”

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Auxiliaries to Abusive Supervisors: The Spillover Effects of Peer Mistreatment on Employee Performance

2021

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An accumulating amount of research has documented the harmful effects of abusive supervision on either its victims or third parties (peer abusive supervision). The abusive supervision literature, however, neglects to investigate the spillover effects of abusive supervision through third-party employees' (i.e., peers') mistreatment actions toward victims. Drawing on social learning theory, we argue that third parties learn mistreatment behaviors from abusive leaders and then themselves impose peer harassment and peer ostracism on victims, thereby negatively affecting victims' performance. Further, we posit that, if a victim has a proactive personality, this will weaken these indirect, negative effects. We conducted two studies, both with three-wave longitudinal data, to verify the hypotheses. The results of Study 1 evidence the significant indirect effects of abusive supervision on employee creative performance via both peer harassment and peer ostracism. Contrary to our moderation hypothesis, the analysis shows that victims' proactive personality strengthens rather than weakens the negative indirect effects of peer harassment. Study 2 generally replicated the results of Study 1 with employee's objective job performance as outcome. Our research contributes to the abusive supervision literature by highlighting a social learning process of thirdparty peer mistreatment, suggesting a spillover channel of abusive supervision on the victim's performance.

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A confirmatory study of the relations between workplace sexism, sense of belonging, mental health, and job satisfaction among women in male‐dominated industries

Cited by 54 publications

References 62 publications

Daily Coping With Social Identity Threat in Outgroup-Dominated Contexts: Self-Group Distancing Among Female Soldiers

Daily Coping With Social Identity Threat in Outgroup-Dominated Contexts: Self-Group Distancing Among Female Soldiers

Social Class Differences in Social Integration at University: Implications for Academic Outcomes and Mental Health

Auxiliaries to Abusive Supervisors: The Spillover Effects of Peer Mistreatment on Employee Performance

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