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Testing Age-Based Stereotype Threat on Environment Learning

Lute, Sara Marie
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-8442-3997
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1706980099059722

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Psychology-Adult Development and Aging.
The aim for this study was to broaden the current understanding of age differences in environment learning by taking a social cognitive lens. This new take on age differences in environment learning stemmed from the age-based stereotype threat (ABST) literature. ABST was explored by testing for interactions between Condition (Neutral and Stereotype Threat) and Age Group (young, middle-aged, older) from 244 participants. Participants were randomly assigned to a neutral condition or a stereotype threat condition that included negative old age stereotype exposure. A significant main effect for Age Group for time taken in allocentric sections and time taken overall was found, with older adults taking longer to complete the task. All of the interactions, for all sections of the task, were nonsignificant. Additional analyses revealed significant main effects for Age Group and Condition on perceived threat and revealed that perceived threat was higher in threat conditions for all age groups. This study adds to the literature by testing ABST effects on a new domain and across various types of environment learning. Furthermore, these findings highlight that older adults may take longer to complete environment learning tasks but may be just as accurate, depending on the task type. The main takeaways from this study were, when exposed to negative old age stereotypes older adults did not perform significantly worse. This suggests that the combination of blatant and subtle stereotypes do not result in ABST effects on environment learning. These findings should be further explored by testing subtle and blatant threat manipulations separately, measuring self-efficacy, and including a task that resembles everyday environment learning.
Philip Allen (Advisor)
Jennifer Stanley (Committee Member)
Robert Peralta (Committee Member)
Eric Allard (Committee Member)
Toni Bisconti (Committee Member)
191 p.
Aging; Developmental Psychology; Psychology
navigation, stereotype threat, age-based stereotype threat, self-concept threat

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  • Lute, S. M. (2024). Testing Age-Based Stereotype Threat on Environment Learning [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1706980099059722

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lute, Sara. Testing Age-Based Stereotype Threat on Environment Learning . 2024. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1706980099059722.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lute, Sara. "Testing Age-Based Stereotype Threat on Environment Learning ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1706980099059722

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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