{"id":184,"date":"2021-10-13T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/?p=184"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:55:31","slug":"a-stereotype-threat-account-of-boys-academic-underachievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/2021\/10\/13\/a-stereotype-threat-account-of-boys-academic-underachievement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stereotype Threat Account of Boys&#8217; Academic Underachievement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/faculty-of-education-and-health\/dr-bonny-hartley\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/faculty-of-education-and-health\/dr-bonny-hartley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonny  L. Hartley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three studies examined the role of stereotype threat in boys&#8217; academic underachievement. Study 1 (children aged 4\u201310,\u00a0<em>n\u00a0<\/em>=238) showed that girls from age 4\u00a0years and boys from age 7\u00a0years believed, and thought adults believed, that boys are academically inferior to girls. Study 2 manipulated stereotype threat, informing children aged 7\u20138\u00a0years (<em>n\u00a0<\/em>=162) that boys tend to do worse than girls at school. This manipulation hindered boys&#8217; performance on a reading, writing, and math test, but did not affect girls&#8217; performance. Study 3 counteracted stereotype threat, informing children aged 6\u20139\u00a0years (<em>n\u00a0<\/em>=184) that boys and girls were expected to perform similarly. This improved the performance of boys and did not affect that of girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: Hartley, B. L., &amp; Sutton, R. M. (2013). A stereotype threat account of boys&#8217; academic underachievement.\u00a0<em>Child development<\/em>,\u00a0<em>84<\/em>(5), 1716-1733. DOI:  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cdev.12079\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cdev.12079<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bonny L. Hartley Three studies examined the role of stereotype threat in boys&#8217; academic underachievement. Study 1 (children aged 4\u201310,\u00a0n\u00a0=238) showed that girls from age 4\u00a0years and boys from age 7\u00a0years believed, and thought &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/centre-for-vulnerable-children-families\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}