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Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27487 Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession Lynch, Ingrid tamanna@rebalance.co.za Hira, Tamanna Chandrakant Postgraduate students Therapy Therapeutic Stereotypes and discourse Thematic analysis Social constructionism Feminisation Gender roles Gender identity Psychology Gender UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. In this qualitative study I explored how postgraduate psychology students treat gender in their accounts of their future profession, using a social constructionist framework. I considered how this group of future psychologists drew upon gendered accounts in three different settings in which they found themselves within the profession. These included exploring how participants constructed their own gendered identities in their narratives of how they came to be pursuing professional training in psychology; how gender featured in their accounts of therapeutic processes and interactions with clients; and finally, their reflections on gendered participation in the broader field of psychology. Interview data from two semi-structured focus group discussions with 12 postgraduate psychology students was analysed using social constructionist thematic analysis. Three main themes were identified that related to participants’ gendered accounts according to their personal, professional and more general constructions of gender, namely: 1) psychology as a profession of choice; 2) setting the scene within psychology in terms of gender, which was divided into: a) a construction of gender from the psychologists’ perspective, and b) psychologists’ construction of gender from their clients’ perspectives. The third and last main theme was 3) Increased competition for females as a consequence of women’s empowerment. This study intended to contribute to the expansion of existing literature by addressing the issue of gender and its related aspects in the field of psychology in a South African context, given the dearth of extended research conducted in developing countries so far. The findings supported those of previous studies to an extent, but mainly redressed the perspective of gender through the identification of new themes. By looking into postgraduate psychology students’ constructions of their own gendered accounts it appeared that upcoming psychologists viewed gender in complex ways, instead of typically reported notions of difference, inequality and inferiority or superiority. In this way, the benefit of understanding professional development within the field of psychology served as a valuable point of departure in understanding debates around how gender was implicated in the clientele psychologists serve. Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:38:37Z 2013-08-27 2013-09-07T11:38:37Z 2013-04-11 2012 2013-08-23 Dissertation Hira, TC 2012, Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27487 > F13/4/766/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27487 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08232013-155337/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Postgraduate students Therapy Therapeutic Stereotypes and discourse Thematic analysis Social constructionism Feminisation Gender roles Gender identity Psychology Gender UCTD Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title | Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title_full | Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title_fullStr | Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title_short | Constructing gender : postgraduate psychology students’ gendered accounts of their future profession |
| title_sort | constructing gender postgraduate psychology students gendered accounts of their future profession |
| topic | Postgraduate students Therapy Therapeutic Stereotypes and discourse Thematic analysis Social constructionism Feminisation Gender roles Gender identity Psychology Gender UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27487 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08232013-155337/ |