Gender differences in competitiveness and fear of failure help explain why girls have lower life satisfaction than boys in gender equal countries
Among 15-year-olds, boys tend to report higher life satisfaction than girls. Recent research has shown that this gender gap tends to be larger in more gender-egalitarian countries. We shed light on this apparent paradox by examining the mediating role of two psychological dispositions: competitivene...
Main Authors: | Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1131837/full |
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