Newton Nicky J, Stewart Abigail J
Northwestern University.
J Res Pers. 2013 Aug 1;47(4):306-316. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.02.003.
Key studies have established an association between women's social roles and their midlife personalities. The current research expands our understanding by examining personality traits in midlife women who followed normative or non-normative life paths. The normative/non-normative distinction was based on two kinds of social roles that college-educated women undertook until midlife: work and family. Gender-linked personality traits were compared between (1) women in high status professions and women in moderate status professions; (2) women without children and women with children; and (3) single mothers and married mothers. Composite measures of gender-linked traits, based on expert-identified Q-sort items, were used. Each non-normative social role group exhibited a different pattern of gender-linked personality traits inconsistent with conventional female gender roles.
关键研究已证实女性的社会角色与其中年时期的性格之间存在关联。当前的研究通过考察遵循规范或非规范人生轨迹的中年女性的性格特质,拓展了我们的认知。规范/非规范的区分基于受过大学教育的女性在中年之前承担的两种社会角色:工作和家庭。对以下几组女性的与性别相关的性格特质进行了比较:(1)从事高地位职业的女性和从事中等地位职业的女性;(2)无子女的女性和有子女的女性;(3)单身母亲和已婚母亲。采用了基于专家确定的Q分类项目的与性别相关特质的综合测量方法。每个非规范社会角色组都表现出与传统女性性别角色不一致的不同性别相关性格特质模式。