کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
948954 926497 2006 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
When appearance concerns make women look bad: Solo status and body image concerns diminish women’s academic performance
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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When appearance concerns make women look bad: Solo status and body image concerns diminish women’s academic performance
چکیده انگلیسی

Women entering male-dominated fields often find themselves the only women present, i.e., they experience solo status. Solo status diminishes women’s performance when women are negatively stereotyped in the testing domain (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000) or when the performance is public (Sekaquaptewa & Thompson, 2002). Because women experience greater body image concerns than men and underperform when these concerns are high (Fredrickson, Roberts, Noll, Quinn, & Twenge, 1998), body image concerns may also cause diminished performance in solo women. Women were given a stigmatized (i.e., heavy) or neutral appearance (via a manipulated photograph), then tested as either solos or non-solos. Results showed that women performed more poorly when given a stigmatized appearance and placed under solo status compared to when only one of these factors were present. Social identity threat concerns (Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002) mediated the solo status effect on performance for women given a stigmatized appearance.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 78–86
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