The different voices of helping: Gender differences in recounting dilemmas |
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Authors: | Nicholas H Wolfinger Jerome Rabow Michael D Newcomb |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 225 South 1400 East, Room 228, 84112-0080 Salt Lake City, UT;(2) Division of Counseling Psychology at the University of Southern California, California, USA |
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Abstract: | Carol Gilligan (1977, 1982) has proposed fundamental gender differences. Women typically conceptualize interpersonal dilemmas
in terms of people and their relationships, whereas men often orient to dilemmas as practical problems. Although considerable
research has explored these gender differences, they have usually been treated as psychological traits or abstract moral orientations.
In this article we show how Gilligan’s theory accounts for gender differences when interviewees described their efforts to
prevent others from driving under the influence (DUI intervention). This result extends Gilligan's theory by showing how it
can account for real life differences between men and women. By demonstrating the relevance of Gilligan's gender differences
to everyday life, we lay a foundation for further sociological exploration of her ideas.
His interests include divorce, social demography, and research methods. His book on the intergenerational transmission of
divorce will be published by Stanford University Press.
Jerome Rabow has been a professor of sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles since 1965. He has published more
than 100 articles in the areas of drunk driving intervention, gender and money, education, and race relations. He recently
completed Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About How to Tutor (Temple University Press, 1999), a book
based on the tutoring experiences of his UCLA students. Professor Rabow is also a psychotherapist in private practice in Los
Angeles.
He is also Research Psychologist and co-director of the Substance Abuse Research Center in the Psychology Department at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Newcomb has published over 200 papers and chapters and has written three
books. His research interests include: etiology and the consequences of adolescent drug abuse; structural equation modeling,
methodology, and multivariate analysis; human sexuality; health psychology; attitudes and affect related to nuclear war; and
cohabitation, marriage, and divorce. |
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