Table A1.

Data and literature linkages to findings

FindingsResearch questionCategoriesThemes and Sub-themesReferences
Communal women experience to a greater negative extent than agentic womenResearch question 1-Negative consequences
-Tension induced resulting experiences
-Tension causing actions
-Tensions from treatment
Tension caused by presence of others
-Personal life influences
-Relational alleviating factors
-Theme 1: tension manifestationsEagly and Karau (2002);
Zheng et al. (2018a);
Arnold and Loughlin (2019);
Badura et al. (2018) 
Individual context, namely, authenticity and awareness, mediate the effects of tensions and make them easier to manageResearch question 2-Feminine soft power
-Being yourself
-Courage
-Awareness enables balance
-Open and growth mindset
-Self-help mechanisms
-Understand the context
-Subtheme 3.1: authenticity
-Subtheme 3.2: awareness
Gardner et al. (2005); Caldwell and Hayes (2016) 
Feedback as an organisational context can be used as a mechanism to effect change in how woman experience tensionsResearch question 3-Organisational environmental tensions
-Organisational influences
-Organisational alleviating factors
-Tension causing feedback
-Feedback processes
-Feedback alleviating factors
-Subtheme 2.1: organisational influences
-Subtheme 2.2: feedback influences
Doldor et al. (2019);
Dimotakis et al. (2017);
Dzubinski et al. (2019);
Woman can respond to tensions in one of two strategies: adapting to the situation paradoxically or creating their own conducive environmentResearch question 2-Accept presence of tensions
-Attain balance
-Create conducive environment
-Subtheme 4.1: environmental –adaptation
-Subtheme 4.2: creation of conducive environment
Kutz (2008);
Shin et al. (2016);
Smith and Lewis (2011);
Zheng et al. (2018b) 

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