Self-Concept Theory

When watching your favorite TV show it may not be uncommon to notice that the characters seem to be cast in typical socially accepted roles. Whether it is the mother that stays home and takes care of the children or the male surgeon about to operate on a patient, it is easy to believe that gender and career association tends to fall into categories. During a time where this controversy is being challenged, it makes us question why people are set to a certain way of beliefs. Self-concept may be one theory that puts emphasis on this; children obtain implicit values at a very young age and carry them throughout their lives. We instill this in them at a young age that will later impact their concepts of themselves and what they believe they can or cannot do (Rudman and Phelan (2010). These implicit values also do not usually agree with what …show more content…
The results suggest a strong positive correlation between the two, which also had a significant affect because zero was not included in the confidence interval and the p-value was less than 0.05. This proposes that even when participants were more likely to explicitly associate women with career, they still had a significant implicit score of typical gender-career preferences; men with career and women with family. The scores suggested that when subjects had a better preference for women and career scores were closer to -3, they tended to receive an IAT score of neutral (0) or -1. Although only one person receive an IAT score of -1 nearly a third of participants received 0 meaning they had little to no association for male and female with family and career. These results didn’t align with my hypothesis because I had hopes that more people would have had implicit scores associating women with career. The results also displayed a stronger correlation than I originally