Female Attractiveness Style Characteristics in PromotingSuccessful Professional Interaction 0 0
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self-presentation, interpersonal orientations, temperament, emotional maturity, motivational attitudes, partner gender, formal and informal situationsAbstract
The aim was to establish associations between manifestations of female attractiveness style and communicative comfort, a subjective psychological indicator of successful professional interac- tion, and to identify the individual psychological correlations of these manifestations with regard to the partner’s gender and the formality of the situation. Methods. Participants were 200 employed women aged 20–41 years (M = 30.02; SD = 6.09). They completed a modified female attractiveness scale, a communicative comfort question- naire, and measures of interpersonal orientations, formal-dynamic properties of temperament, emotional maturity, and motivational attitudes. Data were analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation, the Friedman test, and the Kruskal-Wallis test. Results. Among the n = 145 participants, those classified as having a dominant or mixed style, a mixed style was most prevalent (61.4%). All five style indices were significantly associated with overall communicative comfort. The strongest associations were found for gentle and vibrant manifestations (rₛ = .53 for both indices). Gen- tle, vibrant, formal, and intellectual manifesta- tions were positively associated with comfort in all four contexts. Associations for manipulative manifestations were weaker, and their correlation with comfort in formal interactions with men was not significant. Communicative comfort differed across contexts defined by partner gender and interaction formality (χ²(3) = 19.43; p < .001). The highest mean rank was recorded for informal interactions with women, and the lowest for formal interactions with men. Style-group differences were found only for comfort in interactions with women (H = 13.09; p = .023), the formal-style group had the highest mean rank and the manipulative-style group had the lowest. Gentle manifestations were primarily associated with empathic and prosocial characteristics; vibrant manifestations – with social activity and external emotionl expressiveness; formal manifestations – with emotional maturity, social plasticity, and work orientation; intellectual manifestations – with introexpressiveness and result orientation; and manipulative manifestations – with authoritari-anism, power orientation, and flexibility of social behavior. Discussion and conclusions. Female attractiveness style manifestations were associated with communicative comfort and individual psychological characteristics. Contextual differences in comfort indicated the relevance of the partner’s gender and interaction formality. The findings support treating style manifestations primarily as continuous self-presentation tendencies and considering them in psychological counseling and communicative competence development programs.
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