Title
Self-Silencing To Sexism
Abstract
Women's endorsement of beliefs that prioritize others' voices over their own (i.e., self-silencing beliefs) predicted behaviorally self-silenced to everyday, interpersonal forms of sexism. Self-silencing beliefs, which are consistent with prescriptive gender roles for women, indicate that one should avoid conflict in relationships, put others needs over one's own, accept a discrepancy between one's personal and public self, and judge one's behaviors by external standards. Results from a diary study indicate that the more U.S. college women endorsed self-silencing beliefs the less likely they wanted to respond to sexist incidents and, if they wanted to respond to incidents, the more they verbally restrained their responses to everyday sexism and other stressful incidents. The results suggest that, when addressing women's tendency to self-silence to incidents, one should address women's gender-role consistent beliefs about how they should behave in interpersonal interactions. © 2010 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Publication Date
9-1-2010
Publication Title
Journal of Social Issues
Volume
66
Issue
3
Number of Pages
493-507
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01658.x
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
77956271270 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77956271270
STARS Citation
Swim, Janet K.; Eyssell, Kristen M.; Murdoch, Erin Quinlivan; and Ferguson, Melissa J., "Self-Silencing To Sexism" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 929.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/929