Effects of Salient Multiple Identities on Women's Performance Under Mathematics Stereotype Threat
| Autor: | Rusty B. McIntyre, Charles G. Lord, Laura L. Ten Eyck, Dana M. Gresky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject education Stereotype behavioral disciplines and activities Developmental psychology Test (assessment) Gender Studies Social group Stereotype threat Self-complexity Salient Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychology Social identity theory Practical implications Social psychology psychological phenomena and processes media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sex Roles. 53:703-716 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2762 0360-0025 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11199-005-7735-2 |
| Popis: | Previous research on affective extremity and social identity complexity suggested that women's mathematics stereotype threat might be alleviated by reminding individual women of their multiple roles and identities, most of which would presumably be unrelated and thus impervious to negative stereotypes regarding math performance. To test this hypothesis, we primed the relevant stereotype and then asked men and women college students to draw self-concept maps with many or few nodes. When they drew no maps or maps with few nodes, highly math-identified women scored significantly worse than highly math-identified men on a subsequent Graduate Record Examination-like math test, but when they drew maps with many nodes, they scored as well as those men. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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