@article{ref1,
title="Spanish women making risky decisions in the social domain: the mediating role of femininity and fear of negative evaluation",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Exposito, Francisca and Villanueva-Moya, Laura",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e561715-e561715",
abstract="Authors have empirically evidenced that cultural stereotypes influence gender-typed behavior. With the present work, we have added to this literature by demonstrating  that gender roles can explain sex differences in risk-taking, a stereotypically  masculine domain. Our aim was to replicate previous findings and to analyze what  variables affect women making risky decisions in the social domain. A sample  composed of 417 Spanish participants (281 women and 136 men), between 17 and 30  years old (M = 22.34, SD = 3.01), answered a set of self-report measures referring  to femininity, fear of negative evaluation, and social risk-taking. According to the  main results, sex indirectly linked to risk-taking in the social domain, through  femininity and fear of negative evaluation. Specifically, women (vs. men)  self-reported higher feminine traits, which were associated with increased fear of  negative evaluation, which in turn was associated with less risky decisions in the  social domain. Thus, we have showed the relationship between gender roles and  women's behaviors in a stereotypically masculine domain (risk-taking). Our findings  highlight the necessity of considering a gender-based perspective in the field of  risk-taking, showing that not all women make more risky decisions in the social  domain.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.561715",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.561715"
}