Gendered Influence of Downward Social Comparisons on Current and Possible Selves
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Gendered Influence of Downward Social Comparisons on Current and Possible Selves
Because men and women differ with regard to independent and interdependent self-construals, we propose that downward comparisons are more likely to lower women’s achievement-related self-evaluations compared to men’s. We also hypothesize that gendered self-schemas provide men with advantages in the processing of self-related dispositional information and women with advantages in the processing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Social Issues
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-4537,1540-4560
DOI: 10.1111/0022-4537.00205