Insecurity and Self-Esteem: Elucidating the Psychological Foundations of Negative Attitudes toward Women

Mansell, Jordan; Gatto, Malu A. C.

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“…This research would suggest that those with low implicit self‐esteem might be especially sensitive to psychological threats, and one way to manage these threats can be political zeal and extremism. A more recent study by Mansell and Gatto (2022) also found that those showing a discrepancy between explicit and implicit self‐esteem were more likely to report hostile sexism, prefer men in leadership, and support former U.S. president Trump (and identify as Republican overall).…”

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Self‐Worth and Politics: The Distinctive Roles of Self‐Esteem and Narcissism

Cichocka

Marchlewska

Cislak

2023

Political Psychology

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One of the classic questions in political psychology has been whether feelings of self‐worth are relevant for politics. In this review, we summarize seven decades of research attempting to address this question, focusing on three sets of political outcomes: (1) political ideology, (2) political interest and engagement, and (3) intergroup relations. We rely on the distinction between self‐esteem (feelings of adequacy and satisfaction with oneself) and narcissism (feelings of entitled self‐importance and superiority over others). We argue that this distinction allows us to integrate the literature and explain the mixed effects observed in past research on self‐evaluation and politics. Our review points to a key role of narcissistic status pursuit and psychological defensiveness in predicting potentially problematic political attitudes and behaviors. We discuss practical implications these associations might have for democratic functioning and for understanding political leaders. We conclude by identifying outstanding questions and promising new research directions.

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Section: Two Types Of Self‐evaluationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Self‐Worth and Politics: The Distinctive Roles of Self‐Esteem and Narcissism

Cichocka

Marchlewska

Cislak

2023

Political Psychology

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“…This could mean that male politicians can also suffer from stereotype-violation, albeit for a different associated trait. Given the prevalence of stereotype-based attacks against female politicians (Cassese and Holman 2018) and pervasive sexism (Cassese and Holman 2019;Mansell and Gatto 2022), however, I expect that stereotype violation has a more pronounced negative effects on evaluations of female than male representatives. To explore whether, and how, gender stereotypes affect candidate evaluations, I also examine whether the interaction effect between the gender of the politician and repositioning is determined by the personality traits perceptions of honesty, decisiveness, and competence.…”

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The Way She Moves: Political Repositioning and Gender Stereotypes

Meijers

2024

J Exp Polit Sci

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Research on policy shifts has found that repositioning can be costly as it affects candidates’ perceived honesty, reliability, and competence. It remains unclear, however, whether a politician’s gender affects perceptions of repositioning. Research on gender stereotypes has found that while male politicians are viewed as more competent, decisive, and displaying strong leadership, female politicians are believed to be more honest. Applying expectancy-violation theory, I test the hypothesis that the reputational cost of repositioning is more pronounced for female politicians in a preregistered survey experiment fielded on a large convenience sample in Flanders, Belgium (n = 6,957). I find that while frequent repositioning is evaluated negatively, the negative effect of repositioning is not more pronounced for female candidates than for male candidates on most outcome measures.

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“…People can also use self-esteem to deal with adverse life events to reduce their effects. [ 11 ] According to Uruthirapathy and Dyke, self-esteem can be thought of as a set of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences that shape the process of social life. [ 12 ] Self-esteem is one of the factors that affect one's compatibility in society.…”

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Study on the mediator role of self-esteem in the relationship between female self-objectification and social physique anxiety

Bagherinia,

Saghebi

2023

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Women's perception of body image plays an important role in their psychological health; self-objectification and social physique anxiety can affect self-esteem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the mediator of self-esteem in the relationship between self-objectification and social physique anxiety in female students at Hakim Sabzevari University in Sabzevar. MATERIALS AND METHOD: The method of this descriptive research is correlational. The statistical population of this study is all the female students of Sabzevar, Department of Humanities. Using Morgan's table, 291 subjects were selected as a sample. To collect data, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Questionnaire, McKinley and Hyde's Self-Objectification Questionnaire, and Hart et al., Social Physique Anxiety Questionnaire were used. After filling out the questionnaires, the data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 24 and descriptive indexes were used. Also, for correlation, to test the research question, a suitable statistical test such as hierarchical regression was used. RESULTS: The results of the analysis of statistical data showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between self-objectification and self-esteem. Also, there is a significant positive correlation between this variable and social physique anxiety. Also, using hierarchical regression, the role of mediating self-esteem was confirmed in the relationship between self-objectification and social physique anxiety. CONCLUSION: Those who have a high score in self-objectification think of themselves as an object and are always concerned about evaluating others based on their body image, so if their body image is not approved by others, they will have a negative assessment of themselves that causes a decrease in their self-esteem followed by an increase in the social anxiety of the organs.

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Insecurity and Self-Esteem: Elucidating the Psychological Foundations of Negative Attitudes toward Women

Cited by 4 publications

References 78 publications

Self‐Worth and Politics: The Distinctive Roles of Self‐Esteem and Narcissism

Self‐Worth and Politics: The Distinctive Roles of Self‐Esteem and Narcissism

The Way She Moves: Political Repositioning and Gender Stereotypes

Study on the mediator role of self-esteem in the relationship between female self-objectification and social physique anxiety

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