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Gender Differences in Self‐Ratings of Abilities and Skills
Author(s) -
Swanson Jane L.,
Lease Suzanne H.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1990.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - psychology , self esteem , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , quantum mechanics , physics
Students' ratings of their abilities and skills were examined in relationship to self‐esteem and to their ratings of same‐gender peers. Participants were 112 students (59 women and 53 men) who were administered the Rosenberg (1965) self‐esteem scale and a questionnaire assessing self‐ratings of 14 general abilities and 30 specific skills, as well as peer ratings of the skills. Results indicated that (a) gender differences were observed on 3 of the 14 general abilities, (b) there were significant interactions between gender, peer versus self‐ratings and skill areas, and (c) self‐esteem scores were related to some of the self‐ratings.