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S Berjot1, C Roland-Levy, N Girault-Lidvan
1Laboratoire de Psychologie Appliquée, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 55 rue Pierre Taitteinger, 51100 Reims, France. sophie.berjot@univ-reims.fr
Abstract:
Using the cognitive appraisal conceptualisation of the transactional model of stress, the goal was to assess how victims of stereotype threat respond to this situation in terms of primary appraisals (threat/challenge) and to investigate whether those appraisals may mediate the relation between stereotype threat and performance. Results show that, while participants from North Africa living in France did appraise the situation more as a threat and less as a challenge, only challenge appraisal mediated between stereotype threat and performance.
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