Overall Self-Confidence, Self-Confidence in Mathematics, and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Relation to Salivary Free Testosterone in University Women
| Autor: | Wendy Johnson, Norma L. McCoy, David Zava |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental psychology Anovulation Correlation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Personality Testosterone 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Saliva Students Problem Solving media_common Stereotyping Free testosterone 05 social sciences Gender Identity Testosterone (patch) 030229 sport sciences medicine.disease Self Concept Sensory Systems Self-confidence Masculinity Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology Mathematics Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and Motor Skills. 91:391-401 |
| ISSN: | 1558-688X 0031-5125 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.391 |
| Popis: | This study investigated in 40 young university women the possible relationships between levels of testosterone and specific measures of overall self-confidence and self-confidence in approaching mathematics. Correlations of -.43 and -.49 with each measure of self-confidence, respectively, and level of testosterone were found in the portion of the sample displaying normal ovulatory function. There was no correlation ( r = .02) between the measures of mathematics and overall self-confidence. 19 women did not display normal ovulatory function. The only significant result for the full sample was a significant correlation of -.73 between scores on the Bern Sex Role Inventory Masculinity and overall self-confidence. The reasons for the high anovulatory percentage are not clear, nor are the associations which anovulation might have with either hormonal levels or the personality characteristics in question. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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