Gender Differences in Self-Perceptions : Convergent Evidence From Three Measures of Accuracy and Bias  

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Beyer, Sylvia ; Bowden, Edward M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 23 no. 2 (1997), page 157-172.
Topik: GENDER; bias; accuracy; self - perceptions; gender differences; convergent evidence
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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 behaviour and curtail their participation in masculine domains is discussed.

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