Cognitive consistency and math-gender stereotypes in Singaporean children.

Cognitive consistency and math–gender stereotypes in Singaporean children

Math achievement, stereotypes, and math self-concepts among elementary-school students in Singapore

Singaporean elementary-school students (N 1⁄4 299) completed Child Implicit Association Tests (Child IAT) as well as explicit measures of gender identity, mathegender stereotypes, and math self-concepts. Students also completed a standardized math achievement test. Three new findings emerged. First, implicit, but not explicit, math self-concepts (math 1⁄4 me) were positively related to math ach...

Parent-child math anxiety and math-gender stereotypes predict adolescents' math education outcomes

Two studies examined social determinants of adolescents' math anxiety including parents' own math anxiety and children's endorsement of math-gender stereotypes. In Study 1, parent-child dyads were surveyed and the interaction between parent and child math anxiety was examined, with an eye to same- and other-gender dyads. Results indicate that parent's math anxiety interacts with daughters' and ...

Prediction of math anxiety on metacognitive beliefs among gifted high school students

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between dimensions of metacognition beliefs and mathematics anxiety among gifted high-school students. To this end, 183 high school students (96boys, 87girls) were selected purposive sampling method as gifted by Otis Intelligence Test (students with IQ above 120) and participated in this study. Math Anxiety Scale and Metacogni...

Retraining attitudes and stereotypes to affect motivation and cognitive capacity under stereotype threat.

In a series of experiments, a retraining paradigm was used to test the effects of attitudes and stereotypes on individuals' motivation and cognitive capacity in stereotype-threatening contexts. Women trained to have a more positive math attitude exhibited increased math motivation (Study 1). This effect was not observed for men but was magnified among women when negative stereotypes were either...