Influence of professional status on perceptions of romantic relationship dynamics.

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• Personal Author:
  Bosson JK ; Hettinger VE ; Hutchinson DM
• Description:
  Men and women who violate traditional expectations with regard to professional status are perceived negatively by others, and can face negative outcomes in the workplace. Here we examine whether these negative perceptions extend to observers' evaluations of status violators' intimate relationships. We employed a fictional scenario depicting a heterosexual married couple, manipulating the professional status of each character while holding all other information constant. Participants (N = 396) projected lower relationship satisfaction onto the husband when he had lower professional status than his wife (nontraditional condition). Participants in this condition also liked and sympathized with the wife less, and perceived her as having more power in the relationship than her husband. Finally, these effects were mediated by ratings of the characters on perceived normative masculinity/femininity. These findings contribute to existing research on the penalties that both male and female gender role violators face, suggesting additional consequences for outsiders' perceptions of their intimate relationships. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Behavior Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Humans; Men; Women; Workers; Workplace studies; Psychology; Psychological processes; Behavior; Age groups
• ISSN:
  1524-9220
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  470-480
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065250
• Citation:
  Psychol Men Masc 2014 Oct; 15(4):470-480
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Psychology of Men & Masculinities
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d3db139a530570cc3fd51de9253308e818eb107a8ceefffe681c8e32f1b55345ff5bbcd738d356052dcb99f961416d71119aa48acfb38ca368c33b44a3b454cf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249383/cdc_249383_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 263.11 KB ]