Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving
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 (Domai...
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| description | 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 give them dependency- rather than autonomy-oriented help, and judge their traits and abilities in an unflattering manner. In other words, gender achievement stereotypes create a social context where helping interactions reproduce power and status discrepancies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb667266338c4302af05042175ce14b62023-01-03T06:23:57ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyJournal of Social and Political Psychology2195-33252017-03-015111714110.5964/jspp.v5i1.609jspp.v5i1.609Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help GivingLily Chernyak-Hai0Samer Halabi1Arie Nadler2School of Behavioral Sciences, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, IsraelSchool of Behavioral Sciences, Tel-Aviv - Yaffo Academic College, Tel-Aviv, IsraelThe School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, IsraelBuilding 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 give them dependency- rather than autonomy-oriented help, and judge their traits and abilities in an unflattering manner. In other words, gender achievement stereotypes create a social context where helping interactions reproduce power and status discrepancies.http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/609gender stereotypesachievement domainautonomy/dependency-oriented helppower relations |
| spellingShingle | Lily Chernyak-Hai Samer Halabi Arie Nadler Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving Journal of Social and Political Psychology gender stereotypes achievement domain autonomy/dependency-oriented help power relations |
| title | Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving |
| title_full | Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving |
| title_fullStr | Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving |
| title_short | Gendered Help: Effects of Gender and Realm of Achievement on Autonomy- Versus Dependency-Oriented Help Giving |
| title_sort | gendered help effects of gender and realm of achievement on autonomy versus dependency oriented help giving |
| topic | gender stereotypes achievement domain autonomy/dependency-oriented help power relations |
| url | http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/609 |
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