Examination of the relationship between fear of negative evaluation, gender role stress, and gender equality of female university students

The purpose of current study is to investigate the predictive effect of gender equality on gender role stress, and fear of negative evaluation of female university students.Thus, the participants of the study designed in line with the relational survey method consist of 598 female students studying in different universities in İstanbul, and Adana. As data collection instruments, The Gender Equality Scale (GES) developed by Koç, Haskan-Avcı ve Bayar (2017), The Feminine Gender Role Stress Scale (FGRSS) developed by Gözütok, Toraman ve Acar-Erdol (2017), and The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) adapted into Turkish by Çetin,Doğan ve Sapmaz(2010), and Personal Information Form (PIF)developed by the researcher were used. As for the data analysis, The Independet-Samples T Test was used when the discontinuous variables had two categories while The One Way ANOVA Test was used in case of three categories. Also, The Pearson Product-Moment correlation and The Linear Regression analysis were used to reveal the significance of the relationship between gender equality and feminine gender role stress and fear of negative evaluation. The findings of the study indicate that female university students'gender equalitiy, gender role stres, and fear of negative evaluationdo not significantly vary depending on students' age, grade level, and father's education level. On the other hand, it was found that all three variablesvary significantly depending on mother'seducation level of the students. It was revealed that the increase in the gender equality of the female university students as the mother education level increases; female university students whose mothers are high school graduates have more gender roles than primary and secondary school graduates; female university students whose mothers are primary school graduates have more fear of negative evaluation than secondary school graduates. In addition, the negative significant relation was found betweengender equaltiy and gender role stres, the low level positive significant relation was found between gender equaltiy and fear of negative evaluation . At the end of the study, it was found that gender equality significantly predicted gender role stress and low degreefear of negative evaluation. As a result of the findings, it was discussed and various suggestions were introduced. Keywords: Gender Equality, Feminine Gender Role Stress, Fear of Negative Evaluation