Investigation of gender stereotyping, stress, and coping strategies for women and men in female- and male-dominated occupations

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCarthy, Christopher J.en
dc.creatorWilliams, EsmeĢ Pattersonen
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-25T22:11:23Z
dc.date.available2016-07-25T22:11:23Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThe role of women is radically changing. Today, some women are entering male-dominated occupations. However, success and survival are not always easy for these women due to unique occupational stressors, such as negative gender stereotyping (Spence & Hahn, 1997: Glick & Fiske, 1997), gender saliency (Spangler, Gordon, & Pipkin, 1978; Davidson & Cooper, 1984), and gender overcompensation (Williams, 1989). Stress is currently perceived as the common cold of psychopathology because it can lead to depression, anxiety, mood disorders and other psychosomatic symptoms. The first purpose of the current study was to investigate the differences of gender stereotyping and stress for women and men in female- and male-dominated occupations. Second, the study examined which coping strategies women and men used when coping with a work-related stressful encounter. There were 103 participants who were presented with a work-related vignette of a stressful nature. They were asked how they would cope with the situation by using the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Folkman, Lazarus, Dunkel-Schetter, DeLongis, & Gruen, 1986), as well as by writing in one to two paragraphs their coping strategy. Subsequently, participants completed a stress scale, Symptom Check List-90-R (Derogatis, 1977), Attitudes Toward Women Scale (Helmreich, Spence & Stapp, 1973), and a demographic questionnaire. From MANCOVA analyses which examined the differences between women and men, and the type of occupation (female- or male-dominated occupation), it was determined that there were significant differences between women and men on the coping strategies used. Other differences were not statistically significant.en
dc.description.departmentEducational Psychologyen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2319S313en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/39227en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen
dc.rightsCopyright Ā© is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden
dc.subjectGender rolesen
dc.subjectMale-dominated occupationsen
dc.subjectOccupational stressorsen
dc.subjectNegative gender stereotypingen
dc.subjectGender saliencyen
dc.subjectGender overcompensationen
dc.subjectGender stereotypingen
dc.subjectCoping strategiesen
dc.subjectFemale coping strategiesen
dc.subjectWork-related stressen
dc.subjectGender differencesen
dc.titleInvestigation of gender stereotyping, stress, and coping strategies for women and men in female- and male-dominated occupationsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentEducational Psychologyen
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Psychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen

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