Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Volume 194, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 708-711

Gender, sex role ideology, and self-esteem among east Asian immigrants in the United States (Article)

Barry D.T.* , Bernard M.J. , Beitel M.
  • a Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States, Yale University, School of Medicine, CMHC/SAC, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519-1187, United States
  • b APT Foundation, New Haven, CT, United States
  • c Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between gender, sex role ideology, and self-esteem among 170 (88 male, 82 female) East Asian immigrants in the United States. Participants were administered a battery of psychometrically established measures. Men and women did not differ on personal or collective self-esteem (CSE). Women who endorsed traditional sex roles were significantly more likely to report higher private, identity, and total CSE. Personal self-esteem was a significant independent predictor of traditional sex role for women. Participants who endorsed sex role equality were significantly more likely to report public, membership, and total CSE. Sex role equality was associated with enhanced private CSE for men and attenuated personal self-esteem for women. These findings point to the importance of assessing multiple facets of self-esteem, which appear to be differentially associated with sex role ideology for men and women. Copyright © 2006 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Author Keywords

Self-esteem Immigrant Gender Asian Sex-role

Index Keywords

cultural value ideology immigrant association social psychology regression analysis Research Design human middle aged Asian continental ancestry group Self Assessment (Psychology) ethnic group Far East self esteem gender identity United States social status Humans male Asian American female prediction Personality Inventory Identification (Psychology) self concept psychometry Article sex role adult privacy Sex Factors correlational study normal human Emigration and Immigration personal value Culture

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DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000235788.15722.99
ISSN: 00223018
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English