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

Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Bosson, Jennifer K.; Jurek, Paweł; Besta, Tomasz; Olech, Michał; Vandello, Joseph A.; Bender, Michael; Dandy, Justine; Hoorens, Vera; Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga; Mankowski, Eric; Venäläinen, Satu; Abuhamdeh, Sami; Agyemang, Collins Badu; Akbaş, Gülçin; Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan; Ammirati, Soline; Anderson, Joel; Anjum, Gulnaz; Ariyanto, Amarina; ... (2022). Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models. Social psychological and personality science, 14(7), pp. 808-824. Sage 10.1177/19485506221129687

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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.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Krivoshchekov, Vladislav

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

1948-5506

Publisher:

Sage

Language:

English

Submitter:

Vladislav Krivoshchekov

Date Deposited:

09 Nov 2022 07:00

Last Modified:

13 Aug 2023 02:46

Publisher DOI:

10.1177/19485506221129687

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174572

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174572

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