Examining the Relationship Between Gender Equality Attitudes, Gender Role Stress and Fear of Being Evaluated Negatively

Yıl 2022, , 39 - 44, 31.12.2022

Kübra Özsat , Serdal Işıktaş , Hülya Şenol

https://doi.org/10.25233/ijlel.1160055

Öz

The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between gender equality attitudes of female university students and their gender role stress and fear of being evaluated negatively. The universe of the study consists of female university students studying in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the 2021-2022 academic year. 388 female university students selected by purposeful sampling method were included in the study. Demographic Information Form, Gender Equality Scale (GES), Female Gender Role Stress Scale (FGRSS) and The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) were used to collect data. In the study, it was found that there were no significant correlations between fear of being evaluated negatively and gender equality attitudes. There was significant negative correlation between gender role stress and gender attitudes and there was positive and significant correlation between gender role stress and fear of being evaluated negatively.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Gender, gender equality, gender role stress, fear of negative evaluation

Kaynakça

• Referans1 Benuto, L. T., Casas, J., Gonzalez, F., & Newlands, R. (2020). The behavioral model of health: Education, behavioral health factors, and stigma as predictors of help- 108 seeking attitudes. Community Mental Health Journal, 56(7), 1275–1283.
• Referans2 Blanchard, M., & Farber, B. A. (2016). Lying in psychotherapy: Why and what clients don’t tell their therapist about therapy and their relationship. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 29(1), 90–112.
• Referans3 Donovan, C., & Barnes, R. (2020). Help-seeking among lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims/survivors of domestic violence and abuse: The impacts of cisgendered heteronormativity and invisibility. Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 554– 570.
• Referans4 Filice, E., & Meyer, S. B. (2018). Patterns, predictors, and outcomes of mental health service utilization among lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals: A scoping review. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 22(2), 162–195.
• Referans5 Gimpelson, V., & Treisman, D. (2018). Misperceiving inequality. Economics & Politics, 30(1), 27-54.
• Referans6 Kealy, D., & Rice, S. M. (2020). Dispositional connectedness and depressive symptoms among help-seeking outpatients: The mediating role of self-concealment. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 34(4), 219–222.
• Referans7 Kessler, E. M., Rahn, S., & Klapproth, F. (2019). Do young people prefer older psychotherapists?. European Journal of Ageing, 17(1), 119–124
• Referans8 Nadal, K. L. (2019). Measuring LGBTQ Microaggressions: The Sexual Orientation Microaggressions Scale (SOMS) and the Gender Identity Microaggressions Scale (GIMS). Journal of Homosexuality, 66(10), 1404-1414.
• Referans9 Nguyen, T., & Angelique, H. (2017). Internalized homonegativity, confucianism, and selfesteem at the emergence of an LGBTQ identity in modern Vietnam. Journal of Homosexuality, 64(12), 1617–1631.
• Referans10 Rodgers, R., & O’Connor, J. (2017). What’s in a name? A psychoanalytic exploration of self and identity in transgender individuals who were assigned female at birth. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 31(2), 140–159.
• Referans11 Sadika, B., Wiebe, E., Morrison, M. A., & Morrison, T. G. (2020). Intersectional microaggressions and social support for LGBTQ persons of color: A systematic review of the canadian-based empirical literature. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 16(2), 111-147.
• Referans12 Schrauf, R. W. (2017). Mixed methods designs for making cross-cultural comparisons. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 12(2), 477-497.
• Referans13 Sheehan, S. & Dooley, A. (Eds.). (2013). Constructing gender in medieval ıreland. springer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Referans14 Skarpenes, O., & Nilsen, A. (2014). Regional gender ınequality in the norwegian culture of equality. Gender Issues, 32(1), 39.
• Referans15 Tzur Bitan, D., & Abayed, S. (2020). Process expectations: Differences between therapists, patients, and lay individuals in their views of what works in psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(1), 20–30.
• Referans16 Yee, T., Ceballos, P., & Diaz, J. (2020). Examining the psychological help-seeking attitudes of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 42(3), 307–318.