"Don't Call Me a Student-Athlete": The Effect of Identity Priming on Stereotype Threat for Academically Engaged African American College Athletes

    Authors

    J. Stone; C. K. Harrison;J. Mottley

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Basic Appl Soc. Psychol.

    Keywords

    WOMENS MATH PERFORMANCE; INTELLECTUAL-PERFORMANCE; SALIENCE; SPORTS; Psychology, Social

    Abstract

    Academically engaged African American college athletes are most susceptible to stereotype threat in the classroom when the context links their unique status as both scholar and athlete. After completing a measure of academic engagement, African American and White college athletes completed a test of verbal reasoning. To vary stereotype threat, they first indicated their status as a scholar-athlete, an athlete, or as a research participant on the cover page. Compared to the other groups, academically engaged African American college athletes performed poorly on the difficult test items when primed for their athletic identity, but they performed worse on both the difficult and easy test items when primed for their identity as a scholar-athlete. The unique stereotype threat processes that affect the academic performance of minority college athletes are discussed.

    Journal Title

    Basic and Applied Social Psychology

    Volume

    34

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    99

    Last Page

    106

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000303572900001

    ISSN

    0197-3533

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