eprintid: 19328
rev_number: 22
eprint_status: archive
userid: 13
dir: disk0/00/01/93/28
datestamp: 2015-09-10 12:25:32
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status_changed: 2015-09-10 12:25:32
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Koch, Sabine C.
creators_name: Müller, Stephanie M.
creators_name: Sieverding, Monika
title: Women and computers: effects of stereotype threat on attribution of failure
subjects: ddc-150
divisions: i-100200
keywords: Stereotype threat; Gender; Attribution of failure; Computer domain; College-age students
abstract: This study investigated whether stereotype threat can influence women’s attributions of failure in a computer
task. Male and female college-age students (n = 86, 16–21 years old) from Germany were asked to work on a computer task and were hinted beforehand that in this task, either (a) men usually perform better than women do (negative threat condition), or (b) women usually perform better than men do (positive condition), or (c) they received no threat or gender-related information (control group). The final part of the task was prepared to provide an experience of failure: due to a faulty USB-memory stick, completion of the task was not possible. Results suggest a stereotype threat effect on women’s attribution of failure: in the negative threat condition, women attributed the failure more internally (to their own inability), and men more externally (to the faulty technical equipment). In the positive and control conditions, no significant gender differences in attribution emerged.
date: 2008
publisher: Elsevier
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019328
ppn_swb: 1657795667
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-193283
language: eng
bibsort: KOCHSABINEWOMENANDCO2008
full_text_status: public
publication: Computers & education
volume: 51
place_of_pub: Exeter [u.a.]
pagerange: 1795-1803
issn: 0360-1315
citation:   Koch, Sabine C. ; Müller, Stephanie M. ; Sieverding, Monika  (2008) Women and computers: effects of stereotype threat on attribution of failure.  Computers & education, 51.  pp. 1795-1803.  ISSN 0360-1315     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19328/1/Koch-M%C3%BCller-Sieverding_women_computers_2008.pdf