The Effect of Self-affirmation on the Cognitive-Gender Stereotype Threat in College Students’ Cognitive Activities
The Key Laboratory of Mental Development and Learning Science of Xinjiang, Urumqi 830017, China
| Abstract: | In order to understand the negative effects of cognitive-gender stereotypes and the positive effects of self-affirmation, college students were studied as subjects. Study 1 used gender stereotype and gender stereotype threat as independent variables, requiring participants to complete cognitive task and task performance as the dependent variable; Study 2 used self-affirmation and gender stereotype threat as independent variables, requiring participants to complete cognitive task and task performance as the dependent variable. The results found that under the threat of gender stereotype, the cognitive task performance of male and female college students was significantly lower than that of the subjects not threatened by gender stereotype, the difference between the self-positive group and the non-positive group, and the performance of the self-positive group was significantly higher than that of the non-self-positive group. Therefore, it can be considered that: (1) the gender stereotype threat will significantly reduce the cognitive ability of college students; (2) self can certainly effectively resist the cognitive-gender stereotype threat. |
| Keywords: | Self-affirmation; Gender Stereotype Threat; College Student |
| DOI: | 10.57237/j.ha.2024.01.001 |
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Received: 28 November 2023
Accepted: 28 December 2023
Published Online: 20 January 2024
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