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Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models

Social Psychological and Personality Science, ISSN: 1948-5514, Vol: 14, Issue: 7, Page: 808-824
2023
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Investigators at University of Gdansk Detail Findings in Personality Science (Gendered Self-views Across 62 Countries: a Test of Competing Models)

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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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Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka; Paweł Jurek; Tomasz Besta; Jurand Sobiecki; Magdalena Żadkowska; Jennifer K. Bosson; Joseph A. Vandello; Michał Olech; Michael Bender; Rawan Ghazzawi; Justine Dandy; Vera Hoorens; Colette Van Laar; Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti; Satu Venäläinen; Eric Mankowski; Emma C. O’Connor; Sami Abuhamdeh; Collins Badu Agyemang; Gülçin Akbaş; Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir; Soline Ammirati; Dominique Muller; Joel Anderson; Gulnaz Anjum; Amarina Ariyanto; John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta; Mujeeba Ashraf; Aistė Bakaitytė; Rita Žukauskienė; Maja Becker; Tiphaine Rousseaux; Chiara Bertolli; Dashamir Bërxulli; Kaltrina Kelmendi; Deborah L. Best; Chongzeng Bi; Katharina Block; Mandy Boehnke; Renata Bongiorno; Janine Bosak; Annalisa Casini; Marta Walentynowicz; Vincent Yzerbyt; Qingwei Chen; Emma Sarter; Peilian Chi; Vera Cubela Adoric; Serena Daalmans; Soledad de Lemus; Efrain Garcia-Sanchez; Antonella Ludmila Zapata-Calvente; Sandesh Dhakal; Nikolay Dvorianchikov; Sonoko Egami; Edgardo Etchezahar; Joaquín Ungaretti; Carla Sofia Esteves; Laura Froehlich; Jolanda van der Noll; Alin Gavreliuc; Dana Gavreliuc; Ángel Gomez; Francesca Guizzo; Sylvie Graf; Martina Hřebíčková; Hedy Greijdanus; Michelle K. Ryan; Ani Grigoryan; Narine Khachatryan; Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska; Keltouma Guerch; Marie Gustafsson Sendén; Miriam Linnea Hale; Hannah Hämer; Juliana Barreiros Porto; Claudio V. Torres; Valeska Zanello; Mika Hirai; Lam Hoang Duc; Quang Thi Mong Chi; Paul B. Hutchings; Katie E. Sullivan; Dorthe Høj Jensen; Serdar Karabati; Gabriella Kengyel; Mary Kinahan; Teri A. Kirby; Monika Kovacs; Boglárka Nyúl; Desiree Kozlowski; Vladislav Krivoshchekov; Shera Malayeri; Masoumeh Seydi; Kuba Kryś; Clara Kulich; Tai Kurosawa; Nhan Thi Lac An; Javier Labarthe-Carrara; Pablo Pérez de León; Mary Anne Lauri; Ioana Latu; Abiodun Musbau Lawal; Junyi Li; Jana Lindner; Elena Makarova; Anna Lindqvist; Angela T. Maitner; Sara Sherbaji; Ana Makashvili; Sadia Malik; Tiziana Mancini; Claudia Manzi; Silvia Mari; Sarah E. Martiny; Claude Hélène Mayer; Vladimir Mihić; Jasna MiloševićĐorđević; Eva Moreno-Bella; Silvia Moscatelli; Andrew Bryan Moynihan; Erita Narhetali; Félix Neto; Kimberly A. Noels; Danielle P. Ochoa; Beatriz Torre; Sachiko Ohno; Sulaiman Olanrewaju Adebayo; Randall Osborne; Maria Giuseppina Pacilli; Jorge Palacio; Snigdha Patnaik; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Ivana Piterová; Timothy Valshtein; Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna; Erico Rentería Pérez; Emma Renström; Saba Safdar; Mario Sainz; Marco Salvati; Adil Samekin; Simon Schindler; A. Timur Sevincer; Debra Shepherd; Toni Schmader; Lucille De Souza; Cláudia Simão; Rosita Sobhie; Dijana Sulejmanović; Mariko Tatsumi; Lucy Tavitian-Elmadjian; Suparna Jain Thakur; Ana Torres; Angelica Puzio; Beril Türkoğlu; Vadym Vasiutynskyi; Christin Melanie Vauclair; Neharika Vohra; Colleen Ward; Anna Włodarczyk; Yaping Yang; Magdalena Zawisza

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