A stereotype threat account of boys' academic underachievement.

Autor: Hartley BL; University of Kent., Sutton RM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child development [Child Dev] 2013 Sep-Oct; Vol. 84 (5), pp. 1716-33. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Feb 12.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12079
Abstrakt: Three studies examined the role of stereotype threat in boys' academic underachievement. Study 1 (children aged 4-10, n = 238) showed that girls from age 4 years and boys from age 7 years believed, and thought adults believed, that boys are academically inferior to girls. Study 2 manipulated stereotype threat, informing children aged 7-8 years (n = 162) that boys tend to do worse than girls at school. This manipulation hindered boys' performance on a reading, writing, and math test, but did not affect girls' performance. Study 3 counteracted stereotype threat, informing children aged 6-9 years (n = 184) that boys and girls were expected to perform similarly. This improved the performance of boys and did not affect that of girls.
(© 2013 The Authors. Child Development © 2013 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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