Abstract
The article deals with the results of the study aimed at evaluation of both genders representatives’ sense of guilt that arises at different levels of communication. Gender peculiarities of experiencing and coping with the sense of guilt in interpersonal and intergroup relationships were detected on the basis of three surveys of Ukrainian students (582, 63, and 34 persons). It is shown that majority of differences between women and men are consistent with existing stereotypes in the mass consciousness. Women are more clearly oriented on guilt that occur in the narrow circle of communication and more often emphasize its emotional and communicative content. Instead, men are more interested in superpersonal contexts and prefer instrumental positions. At the same time, the differences were recorded that contradict gender stereotypes. In assessments of students’ guilt women more frequently pay attention to effectiveness/inefficiency, while men emphasize the importance of such negative moral trait as dishonesty. In the sphere of broad social contacts women relatively more actively accuse the government authorities and insist on the need to increase effectiveness of all Ukrainians.
Highlights
In the constructionist discourse of modern psychology, little space is left for such basic human emotion as guilt
The aspects of women’s and men’s attitudes towards guilt are highlighted in our three studies, aimed at evaluation of such feelings by the representatives of both genders in communication that arise at different levels of interpersonal and intergroup relationships
The first of them was devoted to the consideration of sense of guilt in the narrow and broad social context
Summary
In the constructionist discourse of modern psychology, little space is left for such basic human emotion as guilt. A lack of attention is paid as well to gender differences in its occurrence and coping with it. Research descriptions mainly reflect the traditional (and in most cases statistically valid) view of gender differences in experience and attribution of guilt. The aspects of women’s and men’s attitudes towards guilt are highlighted in our three studies, aimed at evaluation of such feelings by the representatives of both genders in communication that arise at different levels of interpersonal and intergroup relationships. The first of them was devoted to the consideration of sense of guilt in the narrow and broad social context. The second was about the possibility and ways to get rid of guilt. In the third one we investigated evaluations of collective guilt
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