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This research was funded by a grant from the National Science Centre in Poland (grant number: 2017/26/M/HS6/00360) awarded to Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka. Data collection by the following researchers was supported by grants as follows: Emma C. O'Connor (grant RL5GM118963 from National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health); Angel Gomez (grant RTI2018-093550-B-I00 from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain); Sylvie Graf and Martina Hřebíčková (grant 20-01214S from the Czech Science Foundation, and grant RVO: 68081740 from the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences); Teri A. Kirby (grant ES/S00274X/1 from the Economic and Social Research Council); Soledad de Lemus (grant PSI2016-79971- P from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness); Michelle K. Ryan and Renata Bongiorno (grant ERC-2016-COG 725128 from the European Research Council awarded to Michelle K. Ryan); Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Anna Lindqvist, and Emma Renström (grant 2017-00414 from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare); Claudio V. Torres (grant DPI / DIRPE n. 04/2019 from the University of Brasilia).
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2022
Subjects
Social Roles -- Psychology
Abstract
Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction processes present in these countries. Using data from 62 countries (N = 28,640), we examine binary gender gaps in agentic and communal self-views as a function of country-level objective gender equality (the Global Gender Gap Index) and subjective distributions of social power (the Power Distance Index). Findings show that in more egalitarian countries, gender gaps in agency are smaller and gender gaps in communality are larger. These patterns are driven primarily by cross-country differences in men’s self-views and by the Power Distance Index (PDI) more robustly than the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI). We consider possible causes and implications of these findings.
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DOI
10.1177/19485506221129687
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39840
Citation Details
Published as: Kosakowska-Berezecka, N., Bosson, J. K., Jurek, P., Besta, T., Olech, M., Vandello, J. A., ... & van der Noll, J. (2022). Gendered self-views across 62 countries: A test of competing models. Social psychological and personality science, 19485506221129687.
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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social psychological and personality science, 19485506221129687 Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Social psychological and personality science, 19485506221129687.