Insidious dangers of benevolent sexism: Consequences for women's performance

被引：284

作者：

Dardenne, Benoit

Dumont, Muriel

Bollier, Thierry

机构：

[1] Univ Liege, Dept Cognit Sci, B-4000 Liege, Belgium

[2] Catholic Univ Louvain, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium

来源：

JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 2007年 / 93卷 / 05期

关键词：

benevolent and hostile sexism; discrimination; performance and working memory; ingroup identification; sense of competence;

D O I：

10.1037/0022-3514.93.5.764

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Four experiments found benevolent sexism to be worse than hostile sexism for women's cognitive performance. Experiments 1-2 showed effects of paternalist benevolent sexism and ruled out explanations of perceived sexism, context pleasantness, and performance motivation. Experiment 3 showed effects of both paternalist and complementary gender differentiation components of benevolent sexism. Benevolent sexism per se (rather than the provision of unsolicited help involved in paternalism) worsened performance. Experiment 4 showed that impaired performance due to benevolent sexism was fully mediated by the mental intrusions women experienced about their sense of competence. Additionally, Experiment 4 showed that gender identification protected against hostile but not benevolent sexism. Despite the apparently positive and inoffensive tone of benevolent sexism, our research emphasizes its insidious dangers.

引用

页码：764 / 779

页数：16

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