Hostile sexism (de)motivates women's social competition intentions: the contradictory role of emotions

Lemonaki, Eleni, Manstead, Antony Stephen Reid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-2096 and Maio, Gregory Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5408-5829 2015. Hostile sexism (de)motivates women's social competition intentions: the contradictory role of emotions. British Journal of Social Psychology 54 (3) , pp. 483-499. 10.1111/bjso.12100

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Abstract

In the present research, we examine the ways in which exposure to hostile sexism influences women's competitive collective action intentions. Prior to testing our main model, our first study experimentally induced high versus low levels of security-comfort with the aim of providing experimental evidence for the proposed causal link between these emotions and intentions to engage in social competition. Results showed that lower levels of security-comfort reduced women's readiness to compete socially with men. Experiment 2 investigated the effect of hostile sexism on women's emotional reactions and readiness to engage in social competition. Consistent with the proposed model, results showed that exposure to hostile beliefs about women (1) increased anger-frustration and (2) decreased security-comfort. More specifically, exposure to hostile sexism had a positive indirect effect on social competition intentions through anger-frustration, and a negative indirect effect through security-comfort.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hostile sexism; benevolent sexism; emotions; social competition
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0144-6665
Date of Acceptance:	1 December 2014
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 08:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/70927

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