The effect of experimentally manipulated implicit negative gender self-stereotyping on women’s implicit self-esteem and implicit career identification and attitudes
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Laws, Valerie Leigh. The effect of experimentally manipulated implicit negative gender self-stereotyping on women’s implicit self-esteem and implicit career identification and attitudes. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T36M353Q
TitleThe effect of experimentally manipulated implicit negative gender self-stereotyping on women’s implicit self-esteem and implicit career identification and attitudes
DescriptionInstitutional sexism still exists today and has implications for women’s gender self-concept. One example of how sexism influences women’s self-concept is through the process of implicit gender self-stereotyping— defined as when individuals automatically associate themselves with society’s widely known gender stereotypes. The present dissertation research examines three primary goals. The first goal is to establish a method that experimentally manipulates women’s implicit negative gender self-stereotyping (Studies 1-5). The second goal is to test if an experimental manipulation of implicit negative gender self-stereotyping decreases women’s implicit (but not explicit) self-esteem (Studies 3 & 5). Finally, the third goal is to experimentally demonstrate that implicit negative gender self-stereotyping increases women’s implicit (but not explicit) career identification with and implicit positive career attitudes toward feminine relative to masculine occupations (Studies 4 & 5). Overall, the results suggest that implicit negative gender self-stereotyping enhances women’s implicit self-esteem (Studies 3 & 5) and also increases their implicit (traditional) career aspirations (Study 5).