The Threat of Stereotypes Among University Students

Abstract

The current research aims to verify the hypothesis that indicates the existence of Athreat to the stereotyped image of university students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines (STEM),And didThere is a statistically significant difference in the threat of stereotyped image according to the variable of academic achievement (Bachelor’s degree in the first stage, Bachelor’s degree in the fourth stage, Master’s degree, PhD) among university students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

In this study, the researcher used the descriptive approach, and the current community consisted of students of primary and higher morning studies at Al-Mustansiriya University, the University of Baghdad, and the University of Technology for the departments of mathematics and physics for the academic year (2022-2023). female student, and the researcher used the stereotype threat scale among university students, the scale of identities and social attitudes (SIAS), by Biko and Brown (Biko and Brown, 2011), and the psychometric characteristics were extracted for it, as the stability of the alpha scale was (0.85), which is thus considered a good stability coefficient. The researcher used a number of statistical methods through the statistical bag (SPSS) The research reached a number of results, including:

1-         The research sample members have a stereotype threat.

2-         There is a statistically significant difference in stereotype threat, according to the variable of academic achievement.

In light of this, the research presented a number of recommendations and suggestions for subsequent research.