When being a bad friend doesn't hurt: The buffering function of gender typicality against self-esteem-threatening feedback
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In: Swiss Journal of Psychology, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2014, p. 97-103.
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T1 - When being a bad friend doesn't hurt
T2 - The buffering function of gender typicality against self-esteem-threatening feedback
AU - Szücs, Attila
AU - Schindler, Simon
AU - Reinhard, Marc André
AU - Stahlberg, Dagmar
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Research on domain-specific sociometer theory suggests that individual mate value has a great influence on self-esteem. In this study (N = 124), we investigated the notion that perceived high gender typicality increases one's perceived mate value and thus counteracts the usual decline in state self-esteem following negative feedback. The participants completed a fictitious personality test to assess their individual quality as a friend and received bogus negative feedback. Depending on the experimental condition, participants received a test score close to the mean test score attained by their own or the opposite gender and thus either gender-typical or genderatypical. Additionally, we included a control condition in which no feedback was given. The results showed that participants in the gender-atypical condition reported lower state self-esteem than did participants in the gender-typical condition or the control condition. This buffer effect was mediated by perceived mate value.
AB - Research on domain-specific sociometer theory suggests that individual mate value has a great influence on self-esteem. In this study (N = 124), we investigated the notion that perceived high gender typicality increases one's perceived mate value and thus counteracts the usual decline in state self-esteem following negative feedback. The participants completed a fictitious personality test to assess their individual quality as a friend and received bogus negative feedback. Depending on the experimental condition, participants received a test score close to the mean test score attained by their own or the opposite gender and thus either gender-typical or genderatypical. Additionally, we included a control condition in which no feedback was given. The results showed that participants in the gender-atypical condition reported lower state self-esteem than did participants in the gender-typical condition or the control condition. This buffer effect was mediated by perceived mate value.
KW - Gender typicality
KW - Mate value
KW - Self-esteem
KW - Sociometer theory
KW - Psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84896484868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1024/1421-0185/a000128
DO - 10.1024/1421-0185/a000128
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84896484868
VL - 73
SP - 97
EP - 103
JO - Swiss Journal of Psychology
JF - Swiss Journal of Psychology
SN - 1421-0185
IS - 2
ER -