Making lemonade? Defensive coping style moderates the effect of stereotype threat on women's math test performance

Sylvia P. Perry; Linda J. Skitka

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.05.013

Making lemonade? Defensive coping style moderates the effect of stereotype threat on women's math test performance

Sylvia P. Perry^*, Linda J. Skitka

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Psychology

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Abstract

People high in defensive pessimism-a coping style characterized by ruminating on worse case scenarios when under stress-perform better under high than low academic pressure. The goal of the present study was to explore whether defensive pessimists might also perform better under high rather than low stereotype threat. Results supported hypotheses: specifically, some individuals' (e.g., defensive pessimists) performance was higher under high than low stereotype threat.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	918-920
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Research in Personality
Volume	43
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.05.013
State	Published - Oct 2009

Keywords

Defensive
Gender
Individual differences
Pessimism
Stereotype threat
Test performance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
Psychology(all)

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Making lemonade? Defensive coping style moderates the effect of stereotype threat on women's math test performance

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