Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2010
Source Publication
Personality and Individual Differences
Abstract
The process and implications of gender-based self-stereotyping are examined in this paper. Women displayed a tendency to selectively self-stereotype for personality and physical traits such that they endorsed positive stereotypic traits and denied negative traits as descriptive of the self and closest women friends. However, negative traits were endorsed as descriptive of women in general. Cognitive stereotypes were endorsed as more descriptive of all women than of the general university student. The tendency to selectively self-stereotype on physical traits was positively associated with appearance, social, and performance self-esteem. The results are discussed for their theoretical and practical implications.
Comments
This is the accepted, peer-reviewed, corrected version before publisher formatting.
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 49, No. 8 (December 2010): 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.030.