Higher self-esteem is linked to greater stereotype threat among academically low- achieving students

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Qi Wang
Guoliang Yu
Christina Pedram
Chuansheng Chen
Cite this article:  Wang, Q., Yu, G., Pedram, C., & Chen, C. (2018). Higher self-esteem is linked to greater stereotype threat among academically low- achieving students. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 46(7), 1123-1132.


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As a stigmatized group, it seems likely that students whose level of academic achievement is low (LA students) would be vulnerable to stereotype threat. Therefore, we conducted a study on the role of stereotype threat and its possible interaction with self-esteem with 182 Chinese LA junior-high-school students. We developed a paradigm to induce stereotype threat about being LA and tested this in a pilot study, in which participants were asked to perform a mental rotation task while viewing stereotype threat information. In the main study, participants were randomly assigned to either the stereotype-threat condition or a control condition. Results showed that stereotype threat had a significant effect on LA students’ performance in that (a) participants in the stereotype-threat condition performed worse than those in the control condition did, and (b) the effect of stereotype threat was greater for high self-esteem individuals than for low self-esteem individuals. There are more aspects of the topic to be explored in future studies.

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