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

Socpus ID

77956271270 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77956271270

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