Abstract: This study examines gender differences in offspring primary caregivers. We compared baseline data from 26 caregiving sons and 244 caregiving daughters. Caregiving sons had higher incomes, were less likely to be married, and provided care to ...
Summary: The present study deals with the question whether the intention to work on a PhD is lower for women than for men. Important psychological mechanisms were investigated that can be assumed to be responsible for the lower PhD-intention. To work on a ...
Summary: A total of 109 couples, employed women and men, answered a questionnaire on their contributions to work in the home and the amount of time spent on their paid job. Also, perceived justice and satisfaction with the division of labor within the ...
Zusammenfassung: Geschlechtsunterschiede in Partnerwahlpräferenzen können durch zwei Theorien erklärt werden: durch die evolutionär orientierte Theorie der sexuellen Strategien und durch die soziale Rollentheorie in Verbindung mit der Annahme einer ...
Zusammenfassung: Zur Analyse und zum Vergleich der in Witzen vermittelten Bilder der Geschlechter wurden 453 Frauenwitze, 586 Blondinenwitze und 858 Männerwitze nach den Prinzipien der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse interpretiert und kategorisiert. Das ...
Women Underevaluate Themselves: Self-Evaluation-Biases in a Simulated Job InterviewAbstract: Achievement-related self-evaluations were assessed in a simulated job interview situation. Each of the 74 men and women who participated in the laboratory study ...
Summary: 128 occupationally independent and dependent men and women were tested with respect to dispositional variables of entrepreneurship. It was found that occupationally independent persons scored higher on need of achievement, internal locus of ...
Summary: In 243 applicants for air traffic controller training (166 male, 77 female) gender differences in a 8-choice reaction time task with stimulus-response incompatibility were investigated. The overall response time was split into decision time (...
Summary: In the Dresden Child Anxiety Study (DKAS) we examined a representative sample of N = 826 eight-year-olds regarding their anxiety by means of children's self-report as well as ratings by parents and teachers. In addition, 230 of the children took ...
The Leipzig Mood Questionnaire: Test Construction, Psychometric Quality and Influence of Age, Gender and Socioeconomic Status on MoodSummary: A questionnaire was developed which comprises five mood dimensions (happiness, activity, irritability, ...
Gender Differences in Stress-Related Variables: The Influence of Worry-DispositionSummary: Although on average women report more distress, stress and bodily complaints than men, their higher life-expectancy objectively points to better health. The ...
Assessment of Self-Estimated Intelligence: Construction, Statistical Testing, and First Results of the Inventory of Self-Estimated Intelligence (ISI)Abstract: The Inventar zur selbsteingeschätzten Intelligenz (ISI) was developed in order to provide an ...
Zusammenfassung: Um zu untersuchen, ob die bessere Verfügbarkeit von Kartenwissen über Nord-Süd-Relationen gegenüber Ost-West-Relationen auf eine Dominanz der Vertikalen im egozentrischen Bezugssystem zurückzuführen ist und in welcher Weise sich ...
Summary: In the Erlangen longitudinal study on comparative career development N = 1500 female and male university graduates with various majors were asked about their work values and retrospectively about some reasons for choosing their university major. ...
Summary: Data of n = 934 students from academically selected secondary schools were collected at the end of grade 10 and in the middle of grade 12 in order to predict course selections in mathematics, i. e. the choice of an advanced or basic course. Based ...
Summary: Studies on self-estimated intelligence indicate that males rate their intelligence higher than females. The present study investigates gender differences in self-estimated intelligence of children and young adults. One hundred and twenty-four ...
What Kind of Students Are Clients of Tutoring?Summary: This paper presents results of two empirical studies conducted as part of the research project “Working at Home for School (WHS)”. Study 1 focused on the prevalence rates of tutoring, in particular ...
Summary:Can differences in recognition of and coping with stress explain gender differences in depressive symptoms of adolescents?A four-year longitudinal study explored the different contribution of low self-esteem, different types of stressors, ...
Zusammenfassung: Untersuchungen zur Partnerwahl zeigen kulturübergreifend, dass Frauen einen älteren wohlhabenden Partner präferieren, Männer ihrerseits Jugendlichkeit und physische Attraktivität einer Partnerin. Geburtsblinden Personen ist einerseits die ...