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The effect of interviewer guise upon gender self‐report responses as a function of interviewee's self‐monitoring position
Author(s) -
SMITH JOHN L.,
BERRY NICKY J.,
WHITELEY PAUL
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199703)27:2<237::aid-ejsp803>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - interview , psychology , femininity , social psychology , androgyny , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , masculinity , sociology , anthropology
Female high and low self‐monitors were interviewed by a female experimenter who adopted either an androgynous or a feminine guise. An analysis of responses scored for femininity yielded a significant interaction between self‐monitoring and interviewer guise which, when subjected to further analysis, revealed a significant simple effect for high self‐monitors but not for low self‐monitors. High self‐monitors scored significantly higher on femininity when with the feminine guise interviewer, but lower when with the androgynous guise interviewer. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.