Social Psychology: A look at School Transitions : How the Transition to College Affects School and Math Self Concept

ISBN-13: 9783659263538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 64 str.

Leslie Monheit; Diana Betz; Denise Sekaquaptewa

Opis

Students experience many changes during the transition to college. This transition may negatively affect a student s school and math self-concept, particularly when their gender group is negatively stereotyped in the academic domain (e.g., women in math). In this study, college students were primed to think about an academic transition or a daily routine. Then participants were primed with gender stereotype threat or no threat followed by a math task. Results found women rated their math self-concept lower than men. Women also scored lower on the math task than men. As hypothesized, women reported lower math self-concept scores than men only in the transition condition; no gender differences emerged in school self-concept scores.

O autorze

Leslie Monheit is from Fulton, Maryland. She graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Statistics. After graduation, she moved out west to Denver, Colorado.