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Oportus, Karen (2022)

The effects of sexual orientation and gender-typed field on performance trust of entrepreneurs

Master thesis | Psychology (MSc)

Sexual minorities may experience discrimination in workplaces, for instance, due to the perceived incongruence between stereotypes attributed to sexual orientation and gendered work. This paper aims to study the effects of this perceived incongruence on entrepreneurs' performance trust. We hypothesise that homosexual entrepreneurs receive lower evaluations than heterosexual entrepreneurs in a male-typed business, and that homosexual entrepreneurs receive lower evaluations in a male than female-typed business. We conducted a vignette study (N = 200) designed as a 2 (sexual orientation: homosexual vs. heterosexual) x 2 (gender-typed business: female-type field vs. male-type field) cross-sectional, between-subjects experiment with participants recruited from Prolific Academic. Both hypotheses were not supported, suggesting that the context of the entrepreneur, acceptance towards sexual minorities, possession of masculine and feminine traits, and performance may play a bigger role in...Show moreSexual minorities may experience discrimination in workplaces, for instance, due to the perceived incongruence between stereotypes attributed to sexual orientation and gendered work. This paper aims to study the effects of this perceived incongruence on entrepreneurs' performance trust. We hypothesise that homosexual entrepreneurs receive lower evaluations than heterosexual entrepreneurs in a male-typed business, and that homosexual entrepreneurs receive lower evaluations in a male than female-typed business. We conducted a vignette study (N = 200) designed as a 2 (sexual orientation: homosexual vs. heterosexual) x 2 (gender-typed business: female-type field vs. male-type field) cross-sectional, between-subjects experiment with participants recruited from Prolific Academic. Both hypotheses were not supported, suggesting that the context of the entrepreneur, acceptance towards sexual minorities, possession of masculine and feminine traits, and performance may play a bigger role in performance trust than the stereotypes associated with them.Show less

sexual orientation, gender-typed business, performance trust, stereotypes, perceived incongruence

Author

Oportus, Karen

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Economic and Consumer Psychology

Supervisors

Prasastyoga, B.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en