Stereotype Threat and Academic Performance

New Findings from a Racially Diverse Sample of College Freshmen

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2135155
AutoresD S Massey (0000-0002-0109-522X, Princeton University, autor correspondente), M J Fischer (0009-0000-8968-1532, University of Connecticut)
Ano2005
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas45-67
Data de publicação2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDu Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1742058x05050058
OpenAlexW1989609763
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas19

The theory of stereotype threat was developed to account for persistent minority underachievement in American colleges and universities. It hypothesizes that members of minority groups underperform academically because of unconscious fears of living up to negative group stereotypes. While evidence pertaining to stereotype threat has been positive, it mostly comes from small experimental studies of selected undergraduate subjects at a few universities. In this paper we test the theory of stereotype threat on a large, representative population of college and university students. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, which surveyed nearly 4,000 students at twenty-eight academic institutions, we construct scales to measure stereotype threat and use them to predict grades. We uncover a clear process of disidentification in response to minority stereotyping and show how it, along with other theoretically specified mechanisms, undermines the grade performance of minorities

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