The assessment of gender role stress for Chinese

Tang, Catherine So‐kum; Lau, Bill Hon-Biu

doi:10.1007/bf01544682

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“…Consistent with previous research (Tang & Lau, 1995 women scored higher on feminine gender role stress (M = 3.37, SD = 0.48) than masculine gender role stress (M = 2.60, SD = 0.47), t (126) = 23.58, p < .001. Women also scored higher on feminine gender role orientation (M = 4.45, SD = 0.58) than masculine gender role orientation (M = 3.92, SD = 0.79), t (126) = 6.09, p < .001.…”

Section: Relationship To Other Gender-typed Constructssupporting

confidence: 91%

Gender Role Internalization, Multiple Roles, and Chinese Women's Mental Health

Tang

2001

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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The influence of gender role internalization as a moderator in the relationship between women's multiple roles and psychological distress was investigated. Study 1 identified three components of gender role internalization, which were labeled "Traditional Ideal Person," "Self-Sacrifice," and "Competence Without Complaint," and found that it did not, overlap with existing gender-typed measures among 128 female Chinese university students. The multidimensionality of gender role internalization was confirmed in Study 2 among a sample of 225 women in the paid Hong Kong workforce. As expected, role quality was a better predictor of psychological distress than role quantity. Gender role internalization accounted for significant portions of explained variance even after taking role quality into account. Internalization of Traditional Ideal Person and Competence Without Complaint messages exacerbated distress in certain areas when role quality was low. However, internalization of Self-Sacrifice messages mitigated distress for Chinese women with low work quality.

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Section: Relationship To Other Gender-typed Constructssupporting

confidence: 91%

Gender Role Internalization, Multiple Roles, and Chinese Women's Mental Health

Tang

2001

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Another problem is that most research in this area had been done in the West, only few in Asia (Takaki et al 2005;Tang and Lau 1995). Since the expected demands and norms on male and female role differ across cultures, the findings obtained in West might not be generalized to Asia.…”

Section: Gender Difference In Patients With Chronic Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…They have, for example, reported higher levels of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion (Geller and Hobfoll 1994;Kohler et al 2006), depression (Musil 1998), and perceived stress (Kohler et al 2006;Ptacek et al 1992). Using Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) and Feminine Gender Role Stress (FGRS) scales, Tang and Lau (1995) studied 482 Chinese college students and professionals, Chinese men generally scored higher on the MGRS factors but lower on the FGRS factors than Chinese women.…”

Section: Gender Difference In Stress and Copingmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Since the expected demands and norms on male and female role differ across cultures, the findings obtained in West might not be generalized to Asia. Tang and Lau (1995) investigated the gender role stress for Chinese and found the meaning of stressors in China differ to that in West. The same rationale may also apply to the meaning of coping strategies, as well as to the relationship between stress and coping.…”

Section: Gender Difference In Patients With Chronic Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender Differences in Stress and Coping among Elderly Patients on Hemodialysis

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The study investigated whether gender differences in the stressor, coping strategies, and how they associate stress and copings among 875 elderly patients undergoing hemodialysis in Taiwan. Chi-square tests, MANOVA and Structural Equation Modeling were used to attain the research purposes. The results found that the women had reported higher stress in response to physical and vessel problems and higher scores in using emotionoriented and support-seeking coping strategies, while the men reported higher stress in reproductive system functioning and higher score in using avoidance as a coping strategy. Furthermore, the results from SEM demonstrated that after controlling for patient characteristics, no statistical difference was found between the two groups with regard to their linking of stress and coping strategies.

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“…Generally speaking, mainstream psychological coping research usually lacks a theoretical and practical definition of gender. There are only a few authors who work to incorporate newer, feminist theoretical discussions (for example Range and Jenkins 2010;Tang and Lau 1995;Hobfoll et al 1994;Nezu and Nezu 1987;Eisler et al 1988).…”

Section: Androcentric Biasesmentioning

confidence: 99%