When appearance concerns make women look bad: Solo status and body image concerns diminish women’s academic performance |
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Authors: | Amy Kiefer Denise Sekaquaptewa Amanda Barczyk |
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Institution: | a Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1109, USA b School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
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Abstract: | Women entering male-dominated fields often find themselves the only women present, i.e., they experience solo status. Solo status diminishes women’s performance when women are negatively stereotyped in the testing domain (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000) or when the performance is public (Sekaquaptewa & Thompson, 2002). Because women experience greater body image concerns than men and underperform when these concerns are high (Fredrickson, Roberts, Noll, Quinn, & Twenge, 1998), body image concerns may also cause diminished performance in solo women. Women were given a stigmatized (i.e., heavy) or neutral appearance (via a manipulated photograph), then tested as either solos or non-solos. Results showed that women performed more poorly when given a stigmatized appearance and placed under solo status compared to when only one of these factors were present. Social identity threat concerns (Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002) mediated the solo status effect on performance for women given a stigmatized appearance. |
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Keywords: | Solo status Gender stereotypes Women Body image |
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