Advances in Social Behaviour Research

Advances in Social Behaviour Research

Vol. 3, 01 March 2023


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Whether Informing Participants with High Self-Relevance of Gender Stereotype Alleviates Stereotype Activation Threat

Meijun Wang * 1
1 School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Advances in Humanities Research, Vol. 3, 398-404
Published 01 March 2023. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by EWA Publishing
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Citation Meijun Wang. Whether Informing Participants with High Self-Relevance of Gender Stereotype Alleviates Stereotype Activation Threat. LNEP (2023) Vol. 3: 398-404. DOI: 10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022512.

Abstract

Females, as a minority group, experience social inequalities relative to males in most societies. Part of the inequalities originates from gender-stereotypical thoughts, which impose threats and anxiety on females, worsening their performances. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the self-relevance level of the stereotypical traits and the performance improvement under the informing women about stereotype threat. Female participants finished a gender role orientation inventory and were exposed to gender stereotype threats before the two-dimensional mental orientation task. The performance of the task was measured by reaction time and the number of correct answers. The participants in the teaching-intervention condition were additionally informed that gender stereotype threat could interfere with their spatial performance. Results showed that women with female gender role orientation performed worse than those without. However, no relation between gender role orientation and teaching-intervention was found. The results suggest a potential problem under the two-dimensional mental rotation tasks and provide future studies with further suggestions.

Keywords

Gender Role Orientation, Priming, Gender Stereotypes, Mental Rotation, Gender Differences., Stereotype Threat

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2022), Part II
ISBN (Print)
978-1-915371-09-6
ISBN (Online)
978-1-915371-10-2
Published Date
01 March 2023
Series
Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
ISSN (Print)
2753-7048
ISSN (Online)
2753-7056
DOI
10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022512
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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