The Domestication of Self: Gender Comparisons of Self-Imagery and Self-Esteem

Mackie, Marlene

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“…Our sample's self-esteem was indistinguishahle from that of high-school students (M = 77.99, t = 2.47, p < .05, d = .08) and low when compared to that of government workers (Af = 86.50, / = 11.74, p < .00\. d = .49) and Canadian residents (M = 88.39,/= ]\.9\,p< .001, d= .57) (Bachman & O'Malley, 1984;Mackie, 1983;Shahani, Dipboye. & Phillips, 1990).…”

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confidence: 98%

Predicting Self‐Esteem, Well‐Being, and Distress in a Cohort of Gay Men: The Importance of Cultural Stigma, Personal Visibility, Community Networks, and Positive Identity

Frable

Wortman

Joseph

1997

Journal of Personality

147

103

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Homosexual and bisexual men (N = 825) enrolled in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study in Chicago completed a 90-minute self-administered questionnaire that included the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a Well-Being Index, and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist. Participants indicated their experiences with gay stigma, their visibility as gay men, their involvement in the gay community, and their commitment to a positive gay identity. Data from this predominantly white, young, educated, and middle-class cohort are consistent with a structural model in which cultural stigma is negatively associated with positive self-perceptions. This within-group result contrasts sharply with between-group results that indicate our gay cohort was neither particularly low in global self-esteem nor high in psychological distress when compared to nonstigmatized samples.

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Section: Positive Self-perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Predicting Self‐Esteem, Well‐Being, and Distress in a Cohort of Gay Men: The Importance of Cultural Stigma, Personal Visibility, Community Networks, and Positive Identity

Frable

Wortman

Joseph

1997

Journal of Personality

147

103

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“…The Twenty Statements Test (Kuhn & McPartland, 1954) has been used in a wide variety of research to understand people's self-conceptions (e.g. Cousins, 1989;Ethier & Deaux, 1990;Mackie, 1983;McGuire & Padawer-Singer, 1976;Rhee, Uleman, Lee, & Roman, 1995). Because it is a well-established measure of self-identity, we adopted it for the present study.…”

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The cognitive contents of social-group identity: values, emotions, and relationships

Bettencourt

Hume

1999

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

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This paper investigates whether persons' cognitive representations of valued group identities dier in content from their representations of their personal identity. The results showed dierences between participants' qualitative descriptions of their group identities and their personal identities. Values, emotions, and personal relationships were more often listed in group identity representations than in personal identity representations.

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“…To measure the salience of the participants’ identities, a “Who am I?” open-ended question asked participants to define themselves in terms of their relationships and roles. This measure (and its variant “the Twenty-Statements Test”; Kuhn & McPartland, 1954) has been widely used to explore gender and cultural differences in self-concept (Dhawan, Roseman, Naidu, Thapa, & Rettek, 1995; Eaton & Louw, 2000; Kanagawa, Cross, & Markus, 2001; Mackie, 1983), as well as its relations to self-esteem and well-being (Lay & Verkuyten, 1999; Rentsch & Heffner, 1992; Thoits, 1992). This measure required participants to complete 10 statements about themselves, starting with the words “I am .…”

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Gender Differences in Identities and Their Sociostructural Correlates: How Gendered Lives Shape Parental and Work Identities

Gaunt

Scott

2016

Journal of Family Issues

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This study draws on identity theory to explore parental and work identities. It examined gender differences in identities, as well as the moderating role of gender in the effects of individuals' sociostructural characteristics. A sample of 148 couples with young children completed extensive questionnaires. As hypothesized, couples' paid-work strategy moderated gender differences in the salience and centrality of parental and work identities. Whereas significant differences in identities were found between stay-at-home mothers and their breadwinning husbands, no differences were found among dual-earner couples. Moreover, men's work identity centrality increased when they had more and younger children, whereas women's work identity centrality decreased. Finally, men's parental identity centrality increased with their income, whereas women's parental identity centrality decreased the more they earned. These findings attest to the importance of examining differences within as well as between genders, by taking into account the interactive effects of gender with other sociostructural characteristics.

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The Domestication of Self: Gender Comparisons of Self-Imagery and Self-Esteem

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

Predicting Self‐Esteem, Well‐Being, and Distress in a Cohort of Gay Men: The Importance of Cultural Stigma, Personal Visibility, Community Networks, and Positive Identity

Predicting Self‐Esteem, Well‐Being, and Distress in a Cohort of Gay Men: The Importance of Cultural Stigma, Personal Visibility, Community Networks, and Positive Identity

The cognitive contents of social-group identity: values, emotions, and relationships

Gender Differences in Identities and Their Sociostructural Correlates: How Gendered Lives Shape Parental and Work Identities

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