THE POSITIVE DAD EFFECT: DOES IDENTIFICATION WITH THE FATHERHOOD IDENTITY REDUCE WORK-BASED MASCULINITY THREAT RESPONSES?

Hellmann Regouby, Jil

THE POSITIVE DAD EFFECT: DOES IDENTIFICATION WITH THE FATHERHOOD IDENTITY REDUCE WORK-BASED MASCULINITY THREAT RESPONSES?

dc.contributor.advisor	Kisamore, Jennifer
dc.contributor.author	Hellmann Regouby, Jil
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Steinheider, Brigitte
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Worley, Jody
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-05T19:38:03Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-05T19:38:03Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.date.manuscript	2020-05-01
dc.description.abstract	This study investigates whether different masculine identities affect the relationship between masculinity threat and threat response in an organizational context. Specifically, the study seeks to extend the extant literature regarding the threat men often perceive regarding their own masculinity when subordinate to a female, as well as examine how masculinity contest cultures can exacerbate these perceptions while fatherhood primes may alleviate them. Fatherhood is an equality masculinity that promotes egalitarian gender relations and contrasts with the prevalent traditional masculinity which is a hegemonic masculinity is built on feminine subordination. Data trended in the hypothesized direction, which indicated that masculinity threat responses were lower for participants who received the fatherhood prime; due to sampling issues, however, statistical significance was not reached. The general direction of the data, albeit not statistically significant, was also congruent with past findings that female work superiors elicit greater threat responses from men than male superiors do. The general direction of the data was also indicative of a relationship between masculinity contest culture and masculinity threat responses even though the hypothesis was not statistically supported. Overall, the study results indicate replication with a larger sample obtained from an organizational context is warranted.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/324254
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Psychology, Industrial.	en_US
dc.subject	masculinity threat	en_US
dc.subject	organizational diversity	en_US
dc.subject	hegemonic masculinity	en_US
dc.subject	equality masculinity	en_US
dc.subject	masculinity contest culture	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	THE POSITIVE DAD EFFECT: DOES IDENTIFICATION WITH THE FATHERHOOD IDENTITY REDUCE WORK-BASED MASCULINITY THREAT RESPONSES?	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Psychology	en_US
shareok.orcid	0000-0002-3644-5816	en_US