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Masculinity, Femininity, and Hispanic Professional Women's Self‐Esteem and Self‐Acceptance
Author(s) -
Long Vonda O.,
Martinez Estella A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1994.tb01733.x
Subject(s) - masculinity , femininity , ethnic group , self esteem , psychology , self acceptance , locus of control , identity (music) , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , physics , anthropology , acoustics , psychoanalysis
The literature suggests that whereas women experience unique challenges with self‐esteem, Hispanic professional women experience an additional challenge of balancing majority culture values with a more family‐oriented ethnic identity. This study investigated differences in self‐esteem, self‐acceptance, masculinity, femininity, and locus of control among Hispanic professional women, non‐Hispanic professionals, scientists, college students, clients, and victims of domestic violence. Masculinity scores were significantly higher for Hispanic professional women, and self‐acceptance scores were significantly lower than for other women professionals.