Do performance avoidance goals moderate the effect of different types of stereotype threat on women’s math performance?

By Katherine M Finnigan, Katherine S. Corker. 2016

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Abstract Stereotype threat is considered to be a robust effect that explains persistent gender gaps in math performance and scientific career trajectories. Some evidence suggests stereotype threat effects are buffered by adoption of performance avoidance goals (Chalabaev, Major, Sarrazin, & Cury, 2012). With 590 American female participants, we closely replicated Chalabaev et al. (2012). Results showed no significant main or interaction effects for stereotype threat or performance avoidance goals, despite multiple controls. We conclude that effects of stereotype threat might be smaller than typically reported and find limited evidence for moderation by avoidance achievement goals. Accordingly, stereotype threat might not be a major part of the explanation for the gender gap in math performance, consistent with recent meta-analyses (Flore & Wicherts, 2015).

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? (2020, background): “The studies in question include several meta-analyses (Flore & Wicherts, 2015; Stoet & Geary, 2012), a number of large, pre-registered replications (Finnigan & Corker, 2016; Flore et al., 2019) and an analysis of 5.5 million chess games played in international tournaments, which found that women’s…”
• Do Mass Mediated Stereotypes Harm Members of Negatively Stereotyped Groups? A Meta-Analytical Review on Media-Generated Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Lift (2017, background): “Other researchers, however, have questioned the validity of stereotype threat theory and results (e.g., Finnigan & Corker, 2016; Flore & Wicherts, 2015; Ganley et al., 2013).”