The Influence of Benevolent Gender Bias on the Career Growth of Female Employees:A Moderated Mediation Model
With the development of the times and the improvement of social civilization,benevolent sex-ism has appeared in front of the society at large instead of hostile sexism,and its negative impact on the career growth of female employees has also attracted the attention of the academic community.Based on self-determination theory,this paper uses questionnaire survey method to collect and analyze data to explore the mediating mechanism and moderating effect of the influence of benevolent sexism on female employees'career growth.The results of the study showed that benevolent sexism negatively predicted female employees'career growth;organization based self-esteem mediated the relationship between benevolent sexism and female employees'career growth;defensive pessimism moderated the relationship between benevolent sexism and organization based self-esteem;and the mediating role of organization based self-esteem between benevolent sexism and female employees'career growth was moderated by defensive pessimism.The findings have theoretical and practical implications for impro-ving female employees'organization based self-esteem and promoting female employees'career growth.
Benevolent SexismOrganization Based Self-EsteemDefensive PessimismCareer growthFemale Employee