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. 2018 Nov 26:9:2144.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02144. eCollection 2018.

Emotional Androgyny: A Preventive Factor of Psychosocial Risks at Work?

Leire Gartzia  1   2 , Jon Pizarro  1 , Josune Baniandres  2
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Emotional Androgyny: A Preventive Factor of Psychosocial Risks at Work?

Leire Gartzia et al. Front Psychol. .

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Abstract

Although previous studies have acknowledged the connections between gender and emotional competences, more research is needed on how gender and emotion interact to influence psychosocial risks at work. This paper addresses how gender stereotypes and emotions simultaneously act as psychosocial antecedents of organizational stress. Following the principles of psychological androgyny, we propose that a combination of communion and agency can serve as a preventive factor at work and lead to healthier responses by providing a wider range of emotional competences to deal with organizational demands. Following previous methodological approaches, we include a quantitative review about scientific research on occupational health in the PsycINFO database during the period 1980-2017 from a multidimensional gender perspective that differentiates between studies addressing the topic from either sex, gender or gender identity dimensions. Finally, we propose new analytical directions to deal with psychosocial hazards at work by underscoring some of the complex ways in which gender and emotional competences influence psychosocial risks at work.

Keywords: androgyny; emotional competences; gender; psychosocial risks; work.

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Total number of articles in the most common psychosocial risk categories.
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Total number of scientific articles per year about workplace stress by gender category. Given the substantially greater number of studies examining workplace stress than studies incorporating a gender perspective, data are presented in different scales. The axis on the left side of the figure represents the total number of articles for workplace stress (without gender-related keywords), whereas the axis on the right represents the total number of articles incorporating a gender perspective in any of our four gender categories (i.e., gender, sex differences, gender identity, or androgyny). The same rationale applies to Figures 3–6.
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Total number of scientific articles per year about workplace abusive behavior by gender category.
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Total number of scientific articles per year about job insecurity by gender category.
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Total number of scientific articles per year about emotional labor by gender category.
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Total number of scientific articles per year about the work–family conflict by gender category.
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