Gender Differences in Seff-Perceptions: Convergent Evidence from Three Measures of Accuracy and Bias

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 157-172 - 1997
Sylvia Beyer1, Edward M. Bowden2
1U Wisconsin-Parkside, Dept of Psychology, Kenosha, WI, US
2Department of Neurological Sciences Rush-Presbytean-St. Luke's Medical Center

Tóm tắt

This research assessed gender differences in the accuracy of self-perceptions. Do males and females with equal ability have similar self-perceptions of their ability? Three measures of accuracy were used: accuracy of self-evaluations, calibration for individual questions, and response bias. As hypothesized, for a masculine task, significant gender differences were found for all three measures: Females' self-evaluations of performance were inaccurately low, their confidence statements for individual questions were less wel calibrated than males; and their response bias was more conservative than males'. None of these gender differences were found for feminine and neutral tasks. As hypothesized, strong self-consistency tendencies were found. Expectancies emerged as an important predictor of self-evaluations of performance for both genders and could account for females' inaccurately low self-evaluations on the masculine task. How females' inaccurate self-perceptions might negatively affect achievement behavior and curtail their participation in masculine domains is discussed.

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