Individual Differences in Experiences of and Responses to Guilt and Shame: Examining the Lenses of Gender and Gender Role

By Jessica Benetti-McQuoid, K. Bursik. 2005

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Leaks, Lumps, and Lines (2011, background): “Research conducted in the United States shows that women report greater proneness to both guilt and shame than men do (Benetti-McQuoid & Bursik, 2005).”
For Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt (2012, background): “Scholars have argued, unsurprisingly, that women exhibit significantly more shame and shame-proneness than do men (Ferguson and Crowley 1997; Benetti-McQuoid and Bursik 2005).”
Gender Differences in Work-Family Guilt in Parents of Young Children (2017, background): “For instance, Benetti-McQuoid and Bursik (2005) conducted a study with undergraduates at an urban university on the East Coast of the United States finding that self-reported proneness to general guilt in response to hypothetical scenarios is greater among women than among men, and it is greater…”
The Other As Shamer Scale-2: Development and validation of a short version of a measure of external shame. (2015, background): “There is also evidence that there can be gender differences with regard to shame, with women reporting higher levels of shame proneness (e.g. Benetti-McQuoid & Bursik, 2005; Galhardo, Cunha, Pinto-Gouveia & Matos, 2013).”