Attitudes towards women in the military and their relation to both quantity and quality contact with female leaders

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Nicol, Adelheid A. M. [1 ]
Nicol, Amelie Mayrand [2 ]
机构
[1] Royal Mil Coll Canada, Mil Psychol & Leadership Dept, Kingston, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Carleton, Dept Biol & Neurosci, Ottawa, ON, Canada
来源
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY | 2024年 / 15卷
关键词
contact quality; contact quantity; intergroup anxiety; perspective-taking; empathy; attitudes toward women in the military; gender roles; SOCIAL-DOMINANCE ORIENTATION; RIGHT-WING AUTHORITARIANISM; INTERGROUP CONTACT; PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; SEXUAL-HARASSMENT; INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS; REDUCING EXPLICIT; METAANALYTIC TEST; EMPATHIC CONCERN; SELF-DISCLOSURE;
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10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1282835
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Contact experiences with women in senior leadership roles are important for creating acceptance of women in organizations dominated by men, such as the military, as leadership roles are considered demanding, requiring numerous agentic qualities that are often ascribed to men. The military lacks women in leadership levels within its organization. We wished to determine whether quality and quantity contact with women in leadership positions reduces intergroup anxiety, increases empathy and perspective-taking, and subsequently creates more favorable attitudes toward women in the military. This was examined in three studies, one with a military sample consisting of men (n = 95), another with a civilian sample of men (n = 367), and a third study with a civilian sample of women (n = 374). Our findings revealed that quality contact was related to attitudes toward women in the military for all three samples. Results from the indirect effects tests conducted for the civilian male and female samples revealed that for civilian men, intergroup anxiety demonstrated a significant indirect effect between quantity contact and attitudes toward women in the military, while both intergroup anxiety and perspective-taking demonstrated significant indirect effects between quality contact and attitudes toward women in the military. Furthermore, both quantity and quality contact demonstrated significant direct effects. On the other hand, results revealed that for civilian women the only significant relation was the direct effect between quality contact and attitudes toward women in the military. Intergroup anxiety, perspective-taking, and empathy did not demonstrate any indirect effects for the civilian women sample. Thus, given that interactions with women in leadership positions are related to views of women in the military, research should further explore the role of contact for women in non-traditional work roles.
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