Gender Differences in Domain-Specific Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis

By Brittany Gentile, S. Grabe, Brenda Dolan-Pascoe, Jean M. Twenge, Brooke E. Wells, Alissa Maitino. 2009

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Lisa M. Yarnell
2. Marissa C. Knox
3. Joan Meyers-Levy
4. Adrian Furnham
5. Bogdan Wojciszke
6. K. Neff
7. B. Loken
8. T. Haugen

In Social Psychology

1. Lisa M. Yarnell
2. A. Abele
3. Agata Syzmanowicz
4. Marissa C. Knox
5. Bogdan Wojciszke
6. Michael C. Mullarkey
7. Erin D. Reilly
8. K. Neff

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Abele
2. Bogdan Wojciszke
3. Joan Meyers-Levy
4. Wieslaw Baryla
5. Adrian Furnham
6. Michal Parzuchowski
7. K. Neff
8. Aleksandra Szymków

Citations in the corpus

• Self-esteem is dominated by agentic over communal information (2011, result): “This is in line with recent meta-analyses showing no systematic gender differences in self-esteem in agentic and communal areas (Gentile et al., 2009).”
• Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Compassion (2015, background): “Moreover, several existing meta-analyses have suggested that women have lower levels of self-esteem (Gentile et al., 2009; Kling, Hyde, Showers, & Buswell, 1999).”
• Revisiting gender differences: What we know and what lies ahead☆ (2015, result): “Similar outcomes were obtained on several esteem-related facets of the self, such as personal self, selfsatisfaction, athletic self, and physical appearance (Gentile et al., 2009).”
• Students’ academic performance and various cognitive processes of learning: an integrative framework and empirical analysis (2010, neutral): “This evidence supports the need for further examination into this area of inquiry (Gentile, Dolan‐Pascoe, Grabe, Wells, & Maitino, 2009 ).”
• Gender Differences in Self-Estimates of General, Mathematical, Spatial and Verbal Intelligence: Four Meta Analyses. (2011, result): “Further the results of a recent meta-analysis has shown that gender differences vary substantially (in both direction and magnitude) in many domain specific self-esteem facets (Gentile et al., 2009).”
• Physical activity and global self-worth: The role of physical self-esteem indices and gender (2011, result): “In contrast, empirical findings suggest that adolescent boys report higher global self-worth than adolescent girls (Gentile et al., 2009; Kling et al., 1999; Moksnes, Moljord, Espnes, & Byrne, 2010).”