The Effects of Stereotype Threat in Female’s State Anxiety and Underperformance

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10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_43How to use a DOI?

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Stereotype Threat; Anxiety; Female Middle School Students; Cognitive Psychology

Abstract

Females with introverted or sensitive personalities could be primarily affected by gender discrimination toward them, and stereotypes often give rise to discrimination. The purpose of this article is to study stereotype threats on females’ state anxiety and underperformance on working memory tests by using the N-Back Task. A total of 50 female middle school students were recruited. The mixed design of 2 (group: priming group/control group) × 3 (N-back difficulty: low/medium/high) was adopted to explore the state anxiety level and N-back task performance of participants with different difficulties under stereotype threat. The results show that there are obviously differences between the stereotype threat group and the non-threat group in the level of state anxiety and N-back task performance. The level of state anxiety in the threat group will be significantly higher than that in the non-threat group; the accuracy rate on the memory task in the threat group will be significantly lower than that of the non-threat group. This study focuses on females and establishes a connection between stereotype threat and working memory capacity, which illustrates a significant phenomenon in the workplace. It is believed that this study is of great inspiration to the future teaching methods in middle schools and also has an urging effect on providing better guidance of public opinion for females.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jianqiao Liu
AU  - Qian Zhao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/11/19
TI  - The Effects of Stereotype Threat in Female’s State Anxiety and Underperformance
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 345
EP  - 354
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_43
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-05-3_43
ID  - Liu2022
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