Self-Efficacy Expectancy as a Function of Gender Identity?! Effects of Manifestations of Gender Stereotypes on General Self-Efficacy Expectation and Specific Self-Efficacy Expectation in Relation to Different Complex Activities

Our study is part of a bachelor’s thesis in the field of social psychology as part of the Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. It will be a quantitative one-time online questionnaire study. The work deals with the topic of “gender stereotypes and self-efficacy expectations” and will examine the possible influence of gender-stereotypical self-attribution on different forms of self-efficacy expectations, both in various complex tasks and in general. For exploratory research, several group comparisons (education, gender category, type of stimulus) regarding reference to specific self-efficacy expectations will be conducted. Our idea is based on a study of Jordan at al. (2022) with the title: “Trivially informative semantic context inflates people’s confidence they can perform a highly complex skill” and will use a variety of different tasks and self-assasment scales. The calculated number of test subjects is above 240 participants, based on a three-factor design and including the exploratory group-comparisons. For analysis, we are going to do multiple linear regressions and linear mixed models, as well as ANOVAs and t-tests for exploratory group comparisons.