Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving

Abstract: Building on research on helping relations and gender stereotypes, the present research explored the effects of gender-stereotypical perceptions on willingness to offer dependency- and autonomy-oriented help to women and men. Two studies were conducted in a 2 (Gender of the person in need) × 2 (Domain of achievement) between-participants design. Study 1 examined future success expectations of male versus female students needing help in performing either a stereotypically masculine or a stereotypically feminine academic task, and the kind of help participants preferred to offer them. Study 2 further explored perceptions of male versus female students who exhibited long-term failure in a gender-stereotypical versus non-stereotypical academic task, perceptions of their intellectual and social abilities, feelings toward them, attributions of their need, and the preferred way of helping. Our findings indicate that women failing in a stereotypically masculine domain may expect others to g.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4977

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; day:13 ; month:03 ; year:2017 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 5, Heft 1 (13.03.2017)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Chernyak-Hai, Lily ; Halabi, Samer ; Nadler, Arie

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v5i1.609
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004375360895309
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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