A Stereotypic Explanatory Bias Study of College Students Occupational Gender Stereotype.docx
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AStereotypicExplanatoryBiasStudyofCollegeStudentsOccupationalGenderStereotype
AStereotypicExplanatoryBiasStudyofCollegeStudents’OccupationalGenderStereotype
Abstract
UsingStereotypicExplanatoryBias(SEB),thepresentstudyinvestigatedcollegestudents’occupationalgenderstereotype.Itwasfoundedthatthereuniversallyexistedoccupationalgenderstereotypeamongcollegestudents;NodifferenceingenderwasfoundinimplicitoccupationalgenderstereotypebySEB;NodifferenceingradewasfoundinimplicitoccupationalgenderstereotypebySEB;peopletendtogivemoreinternalattributionregardlessofthecontextandthegenderofthebehavior’ssubject.
Keywords:
Occupationalgenderstereotype;Stereotypicexplanatorybias;Collegestudents;Attribution
Guo,Y.,&He,X.C.(2015).AStereotypicExplanatoryBiasStudyofCollegeStudents’OccupationalGenderStereotype.CanadianSocialScience,11(3),-0.Availablefrom:
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INTRODUCTION
Occupationalgenderstereotypestillexistsnowadays.Peoplemayadmitexplicitlythatwomencanmakethesameachievementsasmeninsomeareas,however,thetraditionaloccupationalgenderstereotypestillexistsimplicitly,anddirectspeople’sdailythoughtsandbehaviorsinanautomaticway.Theresearchnowadayshasgonebeyondtheoccupationalstereotypeandgenderstereotype,thecollegestudents’occupationalgenderstereotypewasconcernedbysomescholars.Occupationalgenderstereotypeisaprejudgmentaboutmenandwomenengagedincertainoccupationsaftertheclassificationofoccupation,whichhasadirectinfluenceonpeople’scognition,attribution,motivation,behaviorandchoiceofoccupation(Zhu,2010).Asaformofstereotype,occupationalgenderstereotypehashighstability,onceformed,itisnoteasytobechanged.Generally,menareconsideredtobestrong,independent,brave,andsuitableforchallengingandstressfulwork,suchaslawyers,doctors,managers,etc;womenareconsideredtobemild,delicate,timid,introverted,andsuitablefortheserviceortrivialwork,suchassecretaries,nurses,teachers,etc..(Wang,2010)
Earlierstudiesontheoccupationalgenderstereotypemainlyusedirectlyexplicitmeasurement.Butpeopleareoftenforcedbythepressureofsocialevaluation,andunwillingtoadmitthattheyhaveoccupationalgenderstereotype,thereforeexplicitmeasurementresultsmaynotreflectthepeople’srealattitude.Withtheintroductionoftheresearchmethodsofimplicitmeasurementattheendofthe20thcentury,moreandmorepsychologistsbelievethatoccupationalgenderstereotypeisassociatedwiththeimplicitsocialcognition.Themethodscommonlyusedtoresearchoccupationalgenderstereotypearelatencyjudgmenttechnology,projectiontest,ImplicitAssociationTest(IAT),wordcompletion,falsereputationmethod,etc..(Li,2007)Amongthem,IAThashighvalidityandreliability,andcanbeusedtomeasurethoughtsandattitudesthathavenotdirectcontactwithpositiveornegative,soIATisappliedwidelyinthefieldofimplicitsocialcognition. However,withtheprogressoftheresearch,theshortcomingsofIATaregraduallyexposed.ManyresearchresultssupportedthereliabilityandvalidityofIAT,buttheoperationindexesdidn’tgiveareasonableexplanationaboutitsoperationmechanism.KarpinskiandHilto(2001)foundthatthemeasurementresultsofIATcouldn’tpredictthosebehaviorsrelatedtotheimplicitattitudesignificantly.JustwhentheIATwasappliedwidelyandquestioned,StereotypicExplanatoryBias(SEB)isappliedgraduallyinthefieldofimplicitsocialcognition.SEBwasbasedontheexplanatorybiasputforwardbyHastie(1984),Hastiebelievedthatpersonswouldgivemoreexplainingattributionsinthesituationthatwasinconsistentwiththeiroccupationalgenderstereotype,sothattheinconsistentsituationcouldbeexplainedreasonably.AttributionisakeyprobleminSEBmeasurement,SEBscoresarealsoprovidedbytheexplainingquantitiesandtheattributeproperties.Theresearchesaboutattributioncandatebacktothe1983.Kulikfoundpeopletendedtogiveenvironmentalattributionratherthanpersonalattributionwhentheirbehaviorswerenotconsistentwiththeexpectedbehaviors(Liu,1998).ComparedwiththeIAT,SEBhassomeparticularadvantages,suchascombiningwiththesituation,reflectingtheimplicitattitudenaturally,highexternalvalidity,goodpredictability,etc.TheSEBhasbeenwildlyusedinthestudyoftheoccupationalgenderstereotype.
ThisstudyadoptsSEBtoexploretheoccupationalgenderstereotypeofthecollegestudents,anddiscussesgenderdifference,gradedifferenceandinternalorexternalattributiontendency.
1.MATERIALSANDMETHODS
1.1Participants
Wetested64collegestudentsinChengdurandomly(28malesand36females).Thesamplescovered15freshmen,14sophomores,16juniorsand19seniors.
1.2Materials
BasedonthetheoryofSEB,wedevelopedaquestionnaire(Yu&Liang,2005).Thequestionnaireismadeupof25sentencesrequiredtofilloutthereason,participantsneedtofilloutthereasonaccordingtoresults.25sentencesaredividedinto16sentencesofSEBand9irrelevantsentencesaccordingtowhetherthesentencehasspecificrelationswiththeoccupationalgenderstereotype.16SEBsentencesareconsistof8subjectsoftypicallymalename,suchasDengGuoqiang,and8subjectsoftypicallyfemalename,suchasXuFang.9irrelevantsentencesdon’thaveobviousinformationaboutgender,suchasXiaoHe.Everygendergroupisconsistof4sentencesconsistentwithoccupationalgenderstereotypeand4sentencesinconsistentwithoccupationalgenderstereotype,atthesametime,thesesentenceshavebothnegativesideandpositiveside.TheSEBscoresarecalculatedasfollows:
eachattributionstandsforonepoint,sumupalltheattributionswhicharedividedinto2kindsofSEBscoresconsistentorinconsistentwithoccupationalgenderstereotype,thenwecangettheultimateSEBscoresbyusingtheinconsistentscorestominustheconsistentone.MoreSEBscoresindicatethatpersonsgivemoreexplainingattributionsinthesentencecontextinconsistentwithoccupationalgenderstereotype,thatistosay,occupationalgenderstereotypeexertsagreaterimpactoninformationprocessing.Inaddition,wecanfindtheoccupationalgenderstereotypeaccordingtointernalorexternalattributionsontheSEBsentence. Thetest-retestreliabilityofthequestionnaireis0.75(p<.001)afteranintervaloftwoweeks,thehomogeneityreliabilityis0.728.Thetwokindsofreliabilitiesmeetthetestrequirementsofthepreparation.Similarly,Yu(2005)developedasimilarquestionnaireaccordingtotheSEBtheory,thetest-retestreliabilityis0.85,thehomogeneityreliabilityis0.875.
1.3Procedure
Thequestionnairewascarriedoutinstrictaccordancewiththepsychologicaltestprocedure.Theinstructionswereunifiedbeforefillingoutthequestionnaire,andallparticipantswereaskedtofinishitindependently.
1.4DataProcessing
Weinvited2psychologyexpertstoreviewthequestionnaire,andalldatawerestatisticallyanalyzedbyusingSpss20.0.
2.RESULTS
2.1TheOverallSEBScores
InthecalculationoftheoverallSEBscores,wefirstlycalculatethefourtypesofexplainingquantitiesinSEBsentences:
Whentheresultsofbehaviorsofthetypicalfemaleactorareconsistentwiththeoccupationalgenderstereotype,wemarktheexplainingquantitiesforFF;whentheresultsofbehaviorsofthetypicalfemaleactorareinconsistentwiththeoccupationalgenderstereotype,wemarktheexplainingquantitiesforFM;whentheresultsofbehaviorsofthetypicallymaleactorareconsistentwiththeoccupationalgenderstereotype,wemarktheexplainingquantitiesforMM;whentheresultsofbehaviorsofthetypicallymaleactorareinconsistentwiththeoccupationalgenderstereotype,wemarktheexplainingquantitiesforMF.Inlightofmaleandfemalegroups,eachparticipantcangettwoSEBscores:
SEB1andSEB2,SEB1=FM-FF,SEB2=MF-MM,64SEB1scoresand64SEB2scorescanbeobtainedrespectively.Andthen,differencetestisgivenbetweenthetwoSEBscoresand0.Ifthedifferenceissignificant,itindicatesthattheattributionprocessisaffectedbytheoccupationalgenderstereotype,andviceversa.ThespecificSEB1scoresandSEB2scoresarereportedinTable1.
FromtheTable1,wecanknowthatSEB1andSEB2areallsignificantlygreaterthan0(p 2.2DifferencesinGenderandGradeofSEBScores
Atwo-wayANOVAiscarriedoutontheSEB1scoresandSEB2scoresrespectivelyinTable2,whichindicatesthatnodifferencesingenderorgradewerefoundinoccupationalgenderstereotypebySEB,theinteractionbetweenthedifferentgendersanddifferentgradesisofnosignificance.
2.3InternalandExternalAttributionPropertiesofSEB
Throughtheconcreteanalysisofattributionpropertiesaimingto16SEBprojectsinthequestionnaire,wecanalsoknowwhetherparticipantshaveoccupationalgenderstereotypesornot.TheinternalandexternalattributionpropertiesofSEBarereportedin
Assessingwithchi-squarestatisticsaccountsofattributioninthepositivesituationfromTable3(χ2=49.236,P<.01),wecanknowthattheaccountsofinternalattributionaboutmaleactorsinthepositivesituationaresignificantlygreaterthantheaccountsofinternalattributionaboutfemaleactorsinthepositivesituation.Similarly,assessingwithchi-squarestatisticsaccountsofattributioninthenegativesituationfromTable4(χ2=7.998,P<.01),wecanknowthattheacc
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