Gender stereotype endorsement differentially predicts girls' and boys' trait-state discrepancy in math anxiety

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bieg, Madeleine ^a   Goetz, Thomas ^a,b   Wolter, Ilka ^c   Hall, Nathan C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Thurgau University of Teacher Education   (Switzerland)

^c Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories   (Germany)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; diary study; ecological momentary assessment; gender stereotype; mathematics; self concept; state anxiety; trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974634648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01404     Document Type: Article

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