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- Title
The Effect of Sexism Exposure on Women's Narrative Memories.
- Authors
Odermatt, Emily N.
- Abstract
The effect of sexism exposure on gender related narratives was examined. Past literature reveals that individuals exposed to benevolent sexism recollect more memories of incompetence than when exposed to hostile sexism, (Dumont, Sarlet, & Dardeene, 2008); however, the authors examined the frequency of participants' memories rather than the narrative content and failed to examine relevant modifiers of the effect. The current study replicated and extended the work by Dumont and colleagues (2008). Participants (N=45, 45 female) were exposed to either benevolent, hostile, or no sexism and subsequently documented a gender relevant memory. Memories were coded for gender memory topic, presence of incompetence, meaning making, emotion, agency and communion. Participants were also scored on stigma consciousness and gender identity development. It was hypothesized that benevolent sexism would be more likely to elicit memories of incompetence than hostile and no sexism conditions and that stigma consciousness would moderate this effect. There was a significant interaction between sexism condition and stigma consciousness on the presence of incompetence and levels of meaning making in women's narrative memories. This finding suggests that both sexism type and individual interpretation can impact how sexism affects women's narrative memories.
- Subjects
SEXISM; CONSCIOUSNESS; SOCIAL interaction; GENDER identity; FRATERNAL organizations
- Publication
Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research (MJUR), 2019, Issue 10, p108
- ISSN
2160-9357
- Publication type
Article