The purpose of this study is to test the covariance structural models that include the effects of legitimacy, and stability of women on gender social identity, and gender equality. In order to test the fitness of this model and each detailed path, covariance structure analysis was performed using the data collected from 332 female. The results revealed that this model was well-fitted to the data. Among the specific examinations of the relationship, most of the hypotheses were confirmed; along with the increase of the effect of legitimacy, group commitment increased. And along with the increase of the group commitment, gender equality increased, too. This result shows usability of social identity theory in male-female intergroup relationship and differentiation of factors of gender social identity. The significance, implications, and limitations of these findings were discussed and topics to be investigated in the future study were mentioned.
This study was to examine the effect of self-verification on close interpersonal relationship, in which common people are eager to be seen by others as seen by themselves. In particular, we focused on female friendship among college women and investigated cognitive and emotional response, closeness and level of commitment based on whether to be self-verified and self-confident. The results showed that there were tendency on high level of commitment and closeness to friends in on-going relationships, whereas, in initial relationship, respondents felt close and committed to friends who valued them.
The purpose of this research was to develop comprehensive model which explained the relationship between the predictors of the subjective quality of life among married Korean career women. A sample of 605 married Korean career women completed a questionnaire survey. The results revealed that the quality of work life was predicted by job involvement, peer support, supervisory support, job overload, job expectation, job control, and family-work conflict. In contrast, the quality of family life was predicted by child care conflicts, conflicts due to the problems in the communication with one's spouse(i.e., communication conflicts), family expectation, family involvement, financial conflicts, support from one's spouse, supports from one's parents in law, supports from one's parents, and work-family conflicts. In the comprehensive model, the quality of work life was predicted by peer support, job involvement, and family-work conflict. In contrast, the quality of family work was predicted by financial conflicts, communication conflicts, support from one's spouse, and family expectation. Also, subjective quality of life was predicted by work-family conflict, quality of work life, and quality of family work. The implication, some possible limits, and the directions of future research were discussed.
This study was conducted to verify the stability of validity in two female sales jobs(1130 life insurance sales women and 282 female tele-marketers). After a series of item analyses were conducted for each group, 37 items and 33 items among 75 biographical items were included to the validation study, respectedly. The resulting validities and cross-validities were generalizable, regardless of whether sample size of item-keying group was large or small. But, large sample-based empirical keys showed larger cross-validity than small sample-based empirical keys. The finding in this study show that large sample-based keying of biodata scale can yield generalizable validities. And, the current findings suggest that consortium-based, multiple-organization biodata researches are needed.
This study was designed to investigate the effect of gender role contextualization on recall of intercategory and intracategory infomation. It is hypothesized that contextualized perception than uncontextualized perception on gender role(husband or wife) make more gender stereotype that inter-gender errors(inter-category errors) make less than intra-gender errors(intra-category errors) on traits recall of target person. In order to test this hypothesis, Experiment I and Experiment II were conducted. In experiment I and experiment II, After subjects were allocated to two fictional category(to gender analogy category in Experiment I, to neutral category in Experiment II, both uncontextualization condition and role contextualization condition were manipulated, respectively. The uncontextualization condition only was manipulated by allocating two fictional category both Experiment I and Experiment II. In contrast, The role-contextualization condition was manipulated by giving gender role, husband and wife role, respectively. Gender stereotype as dependent variables was measured by inter-category errors and intra-category errors on traits recall of target. In the result, both Experiment I and Experiment II, first, the role-contextualization condition than the uncontextualization condition make more gender stereotype. Second, the role-contextualization condition than the uncontextualization condition make more gender stereotype in relevant traits(agentic traits and cammunal traits) relative to gender category than irrelevant traits(neutral traits). These hypotheses were confirmed by the given two experimental data. Results are discussed in relation to the process and the content origin in processing of the gender stereotype.
This paper starts with an usual presupposition that self is social and interacts with others, and agrees with a thesis that human conditions are such that roles people play are pluralistic and force people to have relational selves. But this paper pays an attention to the theories that women construct relational selves more than men due to physiological states or developmental processes, and proposes an alternative interpretation that if women show relational selves more than men, the cause of the difference may be found not in some essential substances but in historical-cultural contexts in which women ate placed. The difference is analyzed from a non-essential social psychological perspective by showing that conditions like social stereotypes. non-symmetrical roles, and unequal power status are operating in leading women to be more relational. This paper concludes by suggesting what kind of dangers would result when women's selves are constructed only in relational terms.