Understanding female careerism
dc.contributor.author | Depner, Charlene E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | O'Leary, Virginia E. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T16:14:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T16:14:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1976-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Depner, Charlene E.; O'Leary, Virginia E.; (1976). "Understanding female careerism." Sex Roles 2(3): 259-268. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45588> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0360-0025 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-2762 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45588 | |
dc.description.abstract | Horner's fear of success construct rests on the assumption that women react negatively to achievements which violate their definition of appropriate gender-role behavior. Consistent with this assumption, the present investigation attempted to determine whether fear of success imagery expressed in response to different achievement-related cues would covary with (a) a woman's own gender-role orientation and/or (b) the perceived gender-role norms of her significant male. One hundred female honors students completed the Maferr Inventory of Feminine Values and responded to projective cues depicting competitive success characterized as (a) traditionally male, (b) traditionally female, (3) social—domestic, and (d) vicarious. Only one relationship reached significance. Women who perceived the significant male in their life as endorsing nontraditional gender-role behavior were more likely to respond negatively to vicarious success. Fear of success bore no relationship to the gender role of the subject herself. In view of these findings it is considered unwise to regard fear of success as the single, most powerful determinant of a woman's role choices. A more generalized cognitive model which incorporates additional intrapsychic as well as situational factors is proposed. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Developmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Interdisciplinary Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Understanding female careerism | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Women's and Gender Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 48063, Rochester, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45588/1/11199_2004_Article_BF00287653.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00287653 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sex Roles | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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