Smart girls, dumb boys!? How the discourse on "failing boys" impacts performances and motivational goal orientation in German school students.

Autor/inn/en	Latsch, Martin; Hannover, Bettina
Titel	Smart girls, dumb boys!? How the discourse on "failing boys" impacts performances and motivational goal orientation in German school students.
Quelle	In: Social psychology, 45 (2014) 2, S. 112-126Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1864-9335; 2151-2590
DOI	10.1027/1864-9335/a000167
Schlagwörter	Stereotyp; Frau; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Massenmedien; Frau; Mann; Massenmedien; Mathematik; Schüler; Stereotyp; Leistungsmotivation; Leistung; Versagen; Sekundarbereich; Schüler; Versagen; Leistungsmotivation; Leseleistung; Mathematik; Leistung; Zielorientierung; Mann
Abstract	Investigated effects of the media's portrayal of boys as "scholastic failures" on secondary school students in 2 studies. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals toward mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group's negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys' and strengthening girls' performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2015/1