TY - JOUR
AU1 - Eagly, Alice H.
AU2 - Crowley, Maureen
AB - According to our social-role theory of gender and helping, the male gender role fosters helping that is heroic and chivalrous, whereas the female gender role fosters helping that is nurturant and caring. In social psychological studies, helping behavior has been examined in the context of short-term encounters with strangers. This focus has tended to exclude from the research literature those helping behaviors prescribed by the female gender role, because they are displayed primarily in long-term, close relationships. In contrast, the helping behaviors prescribed by the male gender role have been generously represented in research findings because they are displayed in relationships with strangers as well as in close relationships. Results from our meta-analytic review of sex differences in helping behavior indicate that in general men helped more than women and women received more help than men. Nevertheless, sex differences in helping were extremely inconsistent across studies and were successfully predicted by various attributes of the studies and the helping behaviors. These predictors were interpreted in terms of several aspects of our social-role theory of gender and helping.
TI - Gender and Helping Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Social Psychological Literature
JF - Psychological Bulletin
DO - 10.1037/0033-2909.100.3.283
DA - 1986-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/gender-and-helping-behavior-a-meta-analytic-review-of-the-social-03AE6ve7bV
SP - 283
EP - 308
VL - 100
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -