Women’s Psychosocial and Physiological Experience of Speaking in Work Teams

女性在工作团队中发言的心理和生理体验

• 批准号: 2150929
• 负责人: Keaton Fletcher
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150929&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Women; Psychosocial; Physiological; Experience; Speaking

On average, women are less likely than men to express their ideas, emerge as leaders, and spend time talking in work teams. This can harm women’s career advancement, pay, and contribution to the workforce. To address this issue and facilitate women’s success in the workforce, it is necessary to understand why and when women speak up in work teams. This project explores potential barriers to women speaking up in work teams including social and psychological consequences, as well the key role social anxiety may play in exacerbating these negative experiences. This project directly and positively impacts participants, their organizations, and the overall workforce by creating clear suggestions on how to facilitate women’s participation in work teams, and ultimately increase their career success. This project fosters an understanding of why women are less likely to speak up and emerge as leaders in work teams by testing potential mechanisms across two studies. Study 1 is a two-week field study of approximately 150 employed adults using experience sampling methodology, capturing daily anticipated and actual experiences with speaking in work teams as well as their psychosocial consequences. Study 2 takes a more granular focus, using an observational laboratory study in which approximately 125 teams come together for one-time meetings. During these meetings, audio and video recordings of interactions and individual heartrate variability, galvanic skin response, and respiration rate are recorded. By studying the momentary physiological changes leading up to, and following speaking in a team, this study teases apart stress processes, cognitive processing, and their resolutions. Overall, this research project evaluates the how the experience of speaking up in work teams differentially unfolds over moments and days for men versus women, and the role social anxiety plays in this process. The project addresses critical theoretical and practical questions about women’s participation in workforce leadership.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

平均而言，女性比男性表达自己的想法，成为领导者并花时间在工作团队中聊天的可能性要小。这可能会损害妇女的职业发展，薪水和对劳动力的贡献。为了解决这个问题并促进妇女在劳动力中的成功，有必要了解为什么妇女在工作团队中大声疾呼。该项目探讨了女性在包括社会和心理后果在内的工作团队中大声疾呼的潜在障碍，以及社交焦虑在加剧这些负面经历方面所扮演的关键作用。该项目直接和积极地影响参与者，组织和整体劳动力，通过就如何促进妇女参与工作团队的方式提出明确的建议，并最终提高其职业生涯的成功。该项目促进了人们对为什么妇女通过测试两项研究的潜在机制来表达和成为领导者的领导者的理解。研究1是一项为期两周的实地研究，对大约150名员工使用经验抽样方法，捕捉日常预期和实际经验在工作团队中讲话以及他们的社会心理后果。研究2采用了一项观察性实验室研究，将大约125个团队聚集在一起参加一次会议。在这些会议期间，记录了相互作用和个体漏洞变异性，电流皮肤反应和呼吸率的音频和视频记录。通过研究导致团队中的瞬时身体变化并跟随讲话，这项研究可以嘲笑压力过程，认知处理及其决议。总体而言，该研究项目评估了在工作团队中说话的经验在男性与女性与女性的瞬间和天数不同，以及社交动画在此过程中所扮演的角色。该项目解决了有关妇女参与劳动力领导力的关键理论和实用问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，被视为珍贵的支持。