Brain Injury ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 , DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2020.1849799 E H Despins Stafslien 1 , L S Turkstra 1
ABSTRACT
Sex-based differences have been reported in several TBI outcome studies, including studies of social functioning. In some studies, social outcomes have been evaluated via perceptual judgments on questionnaires, which may be influenced by stereotypes about acceptable behaviour for men and women. To explore potential sex-based rater bias in social judgments, we asked 68 typical undergraduates (34 women) to identify problematic behaviour for men vs. women on a widely used questionnaire for TBI social outcome, the LaTrobe Communication Questionnaire. Results revealed more consensus among raters of both sexes about acceptable behaviours for men than behaviours for women, and women were more critical than men when judging persons of either sex. These findings support the importance of considering sex in TBI social outcome research, past and future, not only sex of the participant but also sex of the person judging social outcome. Sex-based differences here also have implications for social evaluations in clinic, where female clinicians are often judging male patients. Future research should consider gender (the social construct), as well as sex (the biological construct), as both may contribute to perceived social outcome after TBI.
中文翻译:
TBI后基于性别的社会沟通期望差异
摘要
在一些TBI结果研究(包括社会功能研究)中,已经报告了基于性别的差异。在一些研究中,通过对问卷的感知判断来评估社会结果,这可能会受到有关男女可接受行为的刻板印象的影响。为了探索潜在的基于性别的评分者在社会判断中的偏见,我们让68名典型的大学生(34名女性)在广泛使用的TBI社会结果调查表LaTrobe Communication调查表上确定男性与女性的行为问题。结果表明,在男女评估者之间,男女双方对男性可接受行为的共识更大,女性在评判男女性别时比男性更为挑剔。这些发现支持在过去和将来的TBI社会结局研究中考虑性别的重要性,不仅参与者的性别,还有判断社会结果的人的性别。此处基于性别的差异也对诊所的社会评估产生影响,在诊所中,女性临床医生通常会判断男性患者。未来的研究应该考虑性别(社会结构)以及性别(生物结构),因为两者都可能有助于TBI后的社会结果。