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Hoorn, Sophie ten (2022)

Can Associations Between Adolescents’ Gender Stereotypes and Grades be explained by Adolescents’ Self-Perceived Abilities?

Master thesis | Psychology (MSc)

Men and women still have different career paths. The roots of these gendered career paths may lay in high school, where adolescents are already making career related decisions by choosing elective courses. Grades and self-perceived abilities play a big part in choosing these elective courses and previous research has shown that gender stereotypes influence grades and self-perceived abilities. This study assessed whether there is a relation between implicit gender stereotypes and grades in math and language for adolescents and if this relation is mediated by self-perceived abilities. The results did not yield evidence for the proposed mediation. The results did however show a positive relation between adolescents’ self-perceived abilities and their math and language grades.

Gender stereotypes

self perceived abilities

grades

adolescents

Author

Hoorn, Sophie ten

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

School Psychology

Supervisors

Esveld, S. van

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en