Predicting helping behaviors: the role of gender and instrumental/expressive self-schemata.
In this study, the relationships among gender, instrumental/expressive self-schemata, and modes of helping were explored. During session one, the level of schematicity of 114 predominantly white undergraduate subjects was assessed using Spence and Helmreich's Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ)...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 30; pp. 647 - 662 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
May 1994
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=508517162&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 508517162 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03600025 SXR jtl: Sex Roles issn: 03600025 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May 1994 vid: 30 pid: 237 pub: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. artinfo: ui: 508517162 10.1007/BF01544668 ppf: 647 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 6.8MB tig: atl: Predicting helping behaviors: the role of gender and instrumental/expressive self-schemata. aug: au: Belansky, Elaine S. Boggiano, Ann K. su: Helping behavior Gender differences (Psychology) Self-perception Gender role sug: subj: Helping behavior Gender differences (Psychology) Self-perception Gender role ab: In this study, the relationships among gender, instrumental/expressive self-schemata, and modes of helping were explored. During session one, the level of schematicity of 114 predominantly white undergraduate subjects was assessed using Spence and Helmreich's Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ), along with importance ratings of the PAQ items to subjects' self-descriptions. During session two, a week later, the same subjects read nine scenarios involving a friend in need of help. Subjects were presented with problem-solving and nurturing behavior items and were asked to rate how likely they were to help the friend. The data support Eagly and Crowley's (1986) social role theory but give little support to Markus' (1977) self-schema theory. Findings indicated that overall, women were more likely to help than men. Additionally, women were more likely to help in a nurturant way than in a problem-solving way, whereas men did not differ in helping modes. Schematicity was not predictive of schema-relevant helping behavior when controlling for gender. The findings of this study imply that in circumscribed contexts, gender may play a more significant role in likelihood to engage in problem-solving and/or nurturing behaviors than schema per se. Reprinted by permission of the author. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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