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Threat to Gender Representation: Identity and Identification
Author(s) -
Cramer Phebe
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00015
Subject(s) - psychology , identification (biology) , representation (politics) , identity (music) , social psychology , gender identity , cognitive psychology , political science , botany , physics , politics , acoustics , law , biology
To investigate the effect of a threat to gender identity on the use of defense mechanisms, college students were given false feedback regarding their sex‐role identity. Male and female students who were given gender‐contrary feedback showed a marked increase in the use of the defense of identification, as compared to students who were given gender‐consistent feedback. Further, both affect change and the use of identification was a function of the degree of discrepancy between feedback condition and conscious gender identity.