Who’s afraid of Donkey Kong? Testing the Stereotype Threat Effect in Video Gaming

Holl, Elisabeth; Wagener, Gary L.; Melzer, André

Reference : Who’s afraid of Donkey Kong? Testing the Stereotype Threat Effect in Video Gaming


	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Communication & mass media
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38370

Title :	Who’s afraid of Donkey Kong? Testing the Stereotype Threat Effect in Video Gaming
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Holl, Elisabeth [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
	Wagener, Gary L. []
	Melzer, André [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
Publication date :	May-2019
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
Event date :	from 24-05-2019 to 28-05-2019
Keywords :	[en] stereotype threat effect ; video games ; gender ; casual gaming
Abstract :	[en] In two studies (Study 1: N = 130; Study 2: N = 56) participants played a video game (Bejeweled 3; SkyChasers) and were either confronted with a stereotype threat (ST) or not. ST is defined as the risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s own group and has been investigated in various field, i.a. in gaming. In the first study participants were confronted with the stereotype that women would perform worse in video games than men. In the second study we worked with a reversed stereotype, namely that women would have now outpaced males in some genres of video games. Our results show that performance varies across gender and genre. Although we did not find the hypothesized interaction effect of gender and ST condition in performance, self-reported measures, such as perceived frustration, and moderating variables indicate performance differences both for women and men, but on different psychological dimensions.
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