The effect of self-consciousness on the expression of gender views

Citation
L. Chang et al., The effect of self-consciousness on the expression of gender views, J APPL SO P, 31(2), 2001, pp. 340-351
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN journal
00219029 → ACNP
Volume
31
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
340 - 351
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9029(200102)31:2<340:TEOSOT>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
This study examines the effect of public self-consciousness on the expressi on of gender-role attitudes. It was hypothesized that high publics were mor e likely to alter their gender-view expressions to meet situational expecta tions than were high privates and that, under an activated state of public self-attention, people were more likely to alter their gender views. Tested in 156 college students in a quasi-experiment conducted in classrooms, the se hypotheses were supported only in work-related gender-role attitude expr essions, but not in domestic gender-view expressions. The experimental mani pulation of public self-consciousness in a classroom setting might have mad e work-related identities more salient. Correspondingly, participants were more responsive to regulating work but not domestic gender views.