کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
947750 1475867 2015 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Cytokine responses and math performance: The role of stereotype threat and anxiety reappraisals
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
پاسخ های سیتوکین و عملکرد ریاضی: نقش بازنگری در مورد تهدید کلیشه ای و اضطراب
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
چکیده انگلیسی


• Female college students take a math exam described as gender-fair or gender-biased.
• In one condition, participants directed to reappraise physiological arousal.
• Performance on math exam and post-exam levels of the cytokine IL-6 were measured.
• Reappraisal of physiological arousal buffers inflammatory responses to exam across conditions.
• Reappraisal of arousal especially effective buffer of inflammatory responses in stereotype threat condition.

This research independently manipulated two potential attenuators of stereotype threat – reappraisal of anxiety and test framing – to explore their independent and combined effects. Female participants took a difficult math exam that was described as gender-biased or gender-fair and were told that anxious arousal could positively impact performance or were given no information regarding arousal. Levels of the cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6), an immune marker of inflammation, were measured in oral mucosal transudate (OMT) both before and after the exam. Our findings indicate that directing reappraisal of physiological arousal attenuated increases in IL-6 across test framing conditions, and was especially effective under stereotype threat (i.e., gender-biased test condition). Reappraisal also mapped onto better test performance in the threat condition. Together, these findings provide insight into the unique and interactive effects of two situational interventions meant to reduce stereotype threat, indexed here by both physiological and performance-based correlates of threat.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Volume 56, January 2015, Pages 203–206
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