Beliefs in "Brilliance" and Belonging Uncertainty in Male and Female STEM Students.

ABSTRACT: A wide-spread stereotype that influences women's paths into STEM (or non-STEM) fields is the implicit association of science and mathematics with "male" and with requiring high levels of male-associated "brilliance." Recent research on such "field-specific ability beliefs" has shown that a high emphasis on brilliance in a specific field goes along with a low share of female students among its graduates. A possible mediating mechanisms between cultural expectations and stereotypes on the one hand, and women's underrepresentation in math-intensive STEM fields on the other hand, is that women may be more likely than men to feel that they do not belong in these fields. In the present study, we investigated field-specific ability beliefs as well as belonging uncertainty in a sample of n

SUBMITTER: Deiglmayr A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6546818 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature