Self-esteem, personality, and gender self-perception

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Event Abstract Back to Event Self-esteem, personality, and gender self-perception Kelly Roughan1*, Desiree Kozlowski1 and Stephen Provost1 1 Southern Cross University, Psychology, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia Aims: An individual’s personality type and self-esteem can influence the way they see themselves and the way they behave and interact with the world around them. A number of personality traits are significant predictors of self-esteem. In addition, self-perceived attractiveness, self-confidence in appearance, and body-esteem all significantly predict self-esteem. Self-perceived attractiveness has also been found to shift following experimental manipulation of an individual’s self-perceived mate-value related to a dynamic social milieu. The aim here was to test the presence, extent, and direction of shifts in self-perceived gender in response to a related market value manipulation. We also investigated whether or not personality type or level of self-esteem were mediating factors. Method: Participants (n=94; 70% female) first completed pre-established measures assessing their self-esteem level and personality traits. They then reported their self-perceived gender (SPG) via an explicit question as well as a novel measure (visual self-assessed gait genderedness) before and after viewing point light walker figures in either high or low feminine/masculine conditions (masculine for men, feminine for women). Results: No significant difference was found between males in the high and low market value conditions either on explicit self-perceived gender (t(26) = -.418, p = .679) or on visual SPG (t(26) = .390, p = .700). Nor did females in the market value conditions differ significantly (explicit SPG: t(64) = -.365, p = .716; visual SPG: t(64) = .684, p = .497). Relationships between SPG, self-esteem, and personality measures were reported. Conclusions: Self-esteem and particular personality traits are possible mediators in shifting an observer’s self-perceived gender. However, no definitive demonstration of these relationships was found with this study. Suggestions for future work were explored in light of these results. Keywords: Personality, self-esteem, market value, Mate value, Self-perceived gender Conference: 12th Annual Psychology Research Conference, 2015, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 25 Sep - 26 Sep, 2015. Presentation Type: Research Topic: Psychology Citation: Roughan K, Kozlowski D and Provost S (2015). Self-esteem, personality, and gender self-perception. Front. Psychol. Conference Abstract: 12th Annual Psychology Research Conference, 2015. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.66.00021 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 23 Sep 2015; Published Online: 23 Sep 2015. * Correspondence: Ms. Kelly Roughan, Southern Cross University, Psychology, School of Health and Human Sciences, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia, k.roughan.10@student.scu.edu.au Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Kelly Roughan Desiree Kozlowski Stephen Provost Google Kelly Roughan Desiree Kozlowski Stephen Provost Google Scholar Kelly Roughan Desiree Kozlowski Stephen Provost PubMed Kelly Roughan Desiree Kozlowski Stephen Provost Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.