FONTAYNE , Paul

In this research we examined the situational malleability of gender schema and specifically the association between competitive sport and masculinity at the intraindividual level. Based on Deaux and Major's (1987) interactive assumption, we predicted that a competitive sport context would activate the masculine dimension in gender schema....

L'objectif de ce travail est de proposer une adaptation française, destinée à des enfants du primaire, du Child Sex Role Inventory (CSRI ; Boldizar, 1991) en format court. Celle-ci sera dénommée « Inventaire des rôles sexués de Bem-enfants » (IRSB-E). Au total, cinq études impliquant 654 sujets ont été réalisées afin de respecter les grandes...

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This article aimed at explaining why in the sport domain, traditionally considered as a masculine domain, girls may sometimes receive better treatements than boys. We examined whether such contrast from stereotypes reflect a reconsideration of traditional sex stereotypes. Physical education teachers and undergraduate students watched videos of...

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This study investigated whether sport is still nowadays considered as a masculine domain and whether the association between sport and masculinity may be modulated by individuals' gender-role orientation. One hundred students performed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) implementing sport and education words with masculine versus feminine...

The main goal of the present research was to examine whether the activation of gender schema would be indifferent to the method of induction: placing individuals into contexts or incidentally exposing them to contexts. Based on Clément-Guillotin and Fontayne's (2011. Situational malleability of gender schema: The case of the competitive sport...

The role of sex stereotypes and gender roles in the sex differences observed in sport and exercise has been extensively investigated in sport psychology, past studies showing that stereotypes are internalized into the self during the socialization process. Although this research has provided clear evidence of the psychosocial roots of sex...

The role of sex stereotypes and gender roles in the sex differences observed in sport and exercise has been extensively investigated in sport psychology, past studies showing that stereotypes are internalized into the self during the socialization process. Although this research has provided clear evidence of the psychosocial roots of sex...

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