Clothing and Teacher Credibility: An Application of Expectancy Violations Theory

Table 1

Means and standard deviations for appropriateness/expectation of apparel presented in the pretest.

	Formality of clothing
Wearer	Less than expected	As expected	More than expected
Female	1.98* (.90)	4.29 (.66)	3.95* (.81)
Male	1.66* (.92)	4.29 (.64)	3.25* (1.15)

Note: standard deviations are in parentheses. Significant differences between males and females are noted with an asterisk (𝑃<.05).