Collective action against sexism in Germany, Turkey, and Japan: The influence of self-construal and face concerns

We suggest that self-construal and face concerns influence individuals’ collective action intentions against sexism. We examined female students from Germany (N = 105), Japan (N = 112), and Turkey, (N = 111), exposed them to a benevolent and a hostile sexism scenario, and compared their collective a...

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Published in:Group processes & intergroup relations Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 409 - 423
Main Authors: Fischer, Freyja B., Becker, Julia C., Kito, Mie, Zamantılı Nayır, Dilek
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Collective action
Conflict management
Conflict resolution
Construal
Females
Individual collective relationship
Management styles
Self concept
Selfconstrual
Sexism
Students
Japan
Germany
Turkey
interdependent self
benevolent sexism
ambivalent sexism
collective action
independent self
hostile sexism
face culture
ISSN:1368-4302, 1461-7188
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Summary:We suggest that self-construal and face concerns influence individuals’ collective action intentions against sexism. We examined female students from Germany (N = 105), Japan (N = 112), and Turkey, (N = 111), exposed them to a benevolent and a hostile sexism scenario, and compared their collective action intentions and indirect conflict management styles (avoiding, outflanking) within countries. As predicted, German and Turkish female students’ collective action intentions against sexism surpassed their intentions for indirect conflict management styles, whereas the reverse was true for Japanese female students. However, Japanese female students had an unaccomplished desire for collective action, suggesting that they wish to act but decide against open confrontation to maintain ingroup harmony. The higher individuals’ independent self-concept and the less they value face, the higher their collective action intentions against hostile sexism in all three countries. We discuss culturally appropriate ways of collective action.
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ISSN:1368-4302
1461-7188
DOI:10.1177/1368430216683533