Wolff Fabian
Institute of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 May 12;12:599199. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.599199. eCollection 2021.
The present research is the first to examine how students' individual and their classmates' math-related gender stereotypes, endorsing that math would be a typically male domain, relate to students' math self-concepts. To this end, data of = 1,424 secondary school students from Germany were analyzed using multilevel analyses. As expected, strong individual beliefs in the math-related gender stereotype were related to lower math self-concepts for girls, but to higher math self-concepts for boys. Moreover, classmates' shared beliefs in this stereotype showed a negative relation to girls' self-concepts, whereas no significant relation between classmates' shared beliefs and boys' self-concepts was found. These relations also persisted after controlling for students' math grades and age. In sum, the results demonstrated that gender stereotypes shared by students' classmates can have a substantial impact on students' math self-concepts, beyond their individual gender stereotypes. This finding emphasizes the significance of classmates as important socializing peers in the process of students' self-concept formation.
本研究首次探讨了学生个人及其同学对数学相关的性别刻板印象(即认同数学是典型的男性领域)如何与学生的数学自我概念相关联。为此,使用多层次分析方法对来自德国的1424名中学生的数据进行了分析。正如预期的那样,对数学相关性别刻板印象的强烈个人信念与女孩较低的数学自我概念相关,但与男孩较高的数学自我概念相关。此外,同学们对这种刻板印象的共同信念与女孩的自我概念呈负相关,而未发现同学们的共同信念与男孩的自我概念之间存在显著关系。在控制了学生的数学成绩和年龄后,这些关系依然存在。总之,研究结果表明,学生同学所共有的性别刻板印象对学生的数学自我概念可能产生重大影响,超出了他们个人的性别刻板印象。这一发现强调了同学作为学生自我概念形成过程中重要的社交同伴的重要性。