eprintid: 11782
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/17/82
datestamp: 2011-04-11 14:58:39
lastmod: 2015-04-23 18:36:36
status_changed: 2012-08-15 08:58:29
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Müller, Julia
creators_name: Schwieren, Christiane
title: Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
ispublished: pub
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: Gender , Personality , Big Five , Five-factor Model , Competition, Experiment
abstract: There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors (Goldberg (1981), McCrae and Costa JR (2003)), where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in achievement settings. We  first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by neuroticism and further that neuroticism is negatively related to performance in competiton. This raises the possibility that those women who do not choose competitive incentives "know" that they should not.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
class_scheme: jel
class_labels: D03, C91, J16, L00
date: 2011
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00011782
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0511
ppn_swb: 656149655
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-117828
language: eng
bibsort: MULLERJULICANPERSONA2011
full_text_status: public
citation:   Müller, Julia ; Schwieren, Christiane  (2011) Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11782/1/Mueller_Schwieren_2011_dp511.pdf