Is it possible to teach someone to be less neurotic. Are there things you can do? Also, is the neurosis due to socialization or is it inherent? I find it hard to believe that it is completely inherent. Society (at least in SA) still has a long way to go to raise children equally.
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Possibly. I wouldn't tho. It's neither good nor bad and has pros and cons. Trans men have spoken of increases of confidence & loss of risk averseness when taking testosterone. It's always men who appear on Darwin Awards.
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Lippa 2010 is a small meta-meta-analysis (!)--finds "small to moderate" gender differences for personality traits, notably neuroticism and agreeableness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x/full …
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Have similar studies been replicated? Are the conclusions drawn here considered well within a margin of error? (Not statistically literate)
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This paper represents a summary of data "from two meta-analyses and three cross-cultural studies on gender differences in personality and interests" (from the abstract). Meta-analyses are already analyzing multiple previous studies--hence my description as "meta-meta."
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That's the main point that I want to focus on. Why are traits that are primarily shown to be female interpreted as being "bad"? Being anxious or neurotic (I'm both) also means I am also more compassionate and sensitive, for example.
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I don't know about "far more." In the US, d value in "neuroticism" gender gap is .53. I.e. in a random pair, woman will have higher neuroticism score than man about 63% of the time. But I don't know how much higher.
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This very strong meta-analysis shows higher neuroticism scores for women than for men (see figure 1): https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201649 … I've seen the same in many studies.
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Go to any feminist zine/blog. Follow women and see how everyone of them has suffered from depression, attempted suicide, and is just out of an "abusive" relationship...
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