Anxiety and Mind Wandering as Independent Consequences of Stereotype Threat

Abstract

We investigated the mediating effects of anxiety and mind wandering in the relationship between stereotype threat and academic performance, testing our multiple mediation model with 5,000 bootstrap samples. The participants were 76 female undergraduate students at South China Normal University. Results showed that both anxiety and mind wandering independently mediated the relationship between stereotype threat and the women's mathematics performance. These findings underscore the importance of integrating anxiety and mind wandering to understand how stereotype threat impacts academic performance. Suggestions for future research are offered.