TY - JOUR
T1 - "Don't call me a student-athlete"
T2 - The effect of identity priming on stereotype threat for academically engaged African American college athletes
AU - Stone, Jeff
AU - Harrison, C. Keith
AU - Mottley, Ja Vonte
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2012.655624
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2012.655624
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859627551
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 34
SP - 99
EP - 106
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 2
ER -