Self-Subjugation Among Women: Exposure to Sexist Ideology, Self-Objectification, and the Protective Function of the Need to Avoid Closure

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作者
Calogero, Rachel M. [1 ,2 ]
Jost, John T. [3 ]
机构
[1] Virginia Wesleyan Coll, Dept Psychol, Norfolk, VA 23502 USA
[2] Univ Kent, Sch Psychol, Canterbury, Kent, England
[3] NYU, Dept Psychol, New York, NY 10003 USA
关键词
benevolent sexism; complementary stereotypes; self-objectification; need for cognitive closure; system justification; MOTIVATED SOCIAL COGNITION; BENEVOLENT SEXISM; SYSTEM-JUSTIFICATION; GENDER STEREOTYPES; AMBIVALENT SEXISM; COLLEGE-WOMEN; BODY OBJECTIFICATION; SEXUAL-OBJECTIFICATION; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS;
D O I
10.1037/a0021864
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Despite extensive evidence confirming the negative consequences of self-objectification, direct experimental evidence concerning its environmental antecedents is scarce. Incidental exposure to sexist cues was employed in 3 experiments to investigate its effect on self-objectification variables. Consistent with system justification theory, exposure to benevolent and complementary forms of sexism, but not hostile or no sexism, increased state self-objectification, self-surveillance, and body shame among women but not men in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, we replicated these effects and demonstrated that they are specific to self-objectification and not due to a more general self-focus. In addition, following exposure to benevolent sexism only, women planned more future behaviors pertaining to appearance management than did men; this effect was mediated by self-surveillance and body shame. Experiment 3 revealed that the need to avoid closure might afford women some protection against self-objectification in the context of sexist ideology.
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