“I Don’t Need Help”: Gender Differences in how Gender Stereotypes Predict Help-Seeking

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• 作者：Joshua Juvrud ; Jennifer L. Rennels
• 关键词：Human gender differences ; Stereotyped attitudes ; Stereotyped behavior ; Health disparities
• 刊名：Sex Roles
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：76
• 期：1-2
• 页码：27-39
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Gender Studies; Sociology, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2762
• 卷排序：76

文摘

Although self-report and correlational studies suggest that gender stereotypes are related to men’s health behavior, particularly in relation to seeking help, there is minimal research that has tested this hypothesis experimentally. The present study examined how two stereotype pathways, personally endorsed gender stereotypes and gender stereotyped attitudes, predicted help-seeking behavior among U.S. undergraduate women (n = 68) and men (n = 72) when they worked on challenging puzzles and recalled previous health help-seeking behavior for physical or psychological problems. Results revealed gender and domain differences in how the two pathways predicted help-seeking. For the puzzle tasks, both attitudinally and personally endorsed gender stereotypes predicted men’s help-seeking, whereas only personally endorsed gender stereotypes predicted women’s help-seeking. For recalled health behaviors, personally endorsed gender stereotypes predicted men’s help-seeking, whereas gender stereotypes did not predict women’s help-seeking. The gender and domain differences in how personal and attitudinal gender stereotypes predicted help-seeking are important to consider when designing interventions to increase help-seeking.