Communicating Gender-Equality Progress, Reduces Social Identity Threats for Women Considering a Research Career
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Social Identity Threats and Identity Safety
1.2. Interest and Self-Efficacy
1.3. Summary of the Design and Hypotheses
2. Method
2.1. Participants
2.2. Materials
2.3. Procedure
3. Results
3.1. Manipulation Check
3.2. Social Identity Threat (Hypothesis 1)
3.3. Interest (Hypothesis 2)
3.4. Mediation Test (Hypothesis 3)
4. Discussion
4.1. Social Identity Threat and Career Control
4.2. Interest and Self-Efficacy
5. Limitations
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Men Male-Dominance Prime | Women Male-Dominance Prime | Men Control Group | Women Control Group | Men Gender-Equality Prime | Women Gender-Equality Prime | |||||||
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M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Social identity threat | 2.11 | 1.17 | 4.38 | 1.53 | 2.02 | 0.95 | 3.44 | 1.54 | 2.11 | 1.19 | 2.90 | 1.55 |
Career control | 3.87 | 1.46 | 4.37 | 1.47 | 3.50 | 1.38 | 3.28 | 1.22 | 3.94 | 1.22 | 3.13 | 1.20 |
Interest | 4.23 | 2.06 | 3.13 | 1.80 | 2.70 | 1.62 | 2.87 | 1.66 | 3.75 | 1.85 | 2.68 | 1.74 |
Self-efficacy | 4.63 | 1.81 | 4.03 | 1.62 | 4.32 | 1.60 | 3.72 | 1.81 | 4.73 | 1.37 | 3.79 | 1.79 |
Gender stereotype | 4.03 | 0.32 | 3.97 | 0.18 | 4.03 | 0.41 | 4.09 | 0.39 | 4.00 | 0.00 | 3.97 | 0.48 |
Manipulation check | 5.39 | 1.17 | 5.13 | 1.14 | 4.70 | 1.06 | 5.12 | 0.91 | 4.88 | 0.87 | 4.61 | 1.05 |
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