Women do not shy away from competition: Competition in same-gender and cross-gender friendship dyads
| Autor: | Mahzad Hojjat, Clare M. Mehta, Emily Beauparlant, Madeleine Page, Brian J. Ayotte |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Social environment Friends 050109 social psychology Sample (statistics) Competition (economics) Friendship Sex Factors Stress (linguistics) Humans Female Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Social Psychology. 162:393-406 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1183 0022-4545 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00224545.2021.1906202 |
| Popis: | This study explored gender differences in competition within friendships of emerging adults. In a sample of 118 same and cross-gender friendship dyads, we used a quasi-experimental design to examine how people competed with friends and reacted to this competition when completing a task in both competitive and noncompetitive conditions. Using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling approach to data analyses, we found that in the noncompetitive condition, men and women competed more with same-gender than with cross-gender friends. In the competitive condition, however, both men and women behaved more competitively with male than with female friends. Interestingly, while men reported more stress when competing with cross-gender friends, there was no difference in reported stress for women, regardless of the gender of the friend with whom they were competing. The findings indicate that both the specific and general social context in which competition occurs are important in determining whether gender differences are observed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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