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"Men are better than women !" : The positive effect of stereotype threat on self-paced cycling exercise.

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The perception of effort (RPE) is generally used to monitor, prescribe, and regulate exercise following a performance objective or during health-related physical activities [1]. However, RPE may be influenced by some environmental and psychological factors, as downward social comparisons [2]. An other social context has received attention in sensorimotor tasks: the stereotype threat phenomenon. According to this model, people may underperform on a task when thinking about the negative performance expectations for their own group [3]. As RPE is a significant factor that limits exercise performance [4], the influence of stereotype threat on RPE and particularly the RPE / intensity relation (i.e., power developed at a fixed RPE) was investigated. Thirty-four participants from a sport university (17 women and 17 men; Mage = 20.8, SDage = 2.4) took part in this study. After a familiarization session, participants were randomly assigned to a negative and a nullified stereotype condition and performed 20-min of self-paced cycling exercise at moderate effort (RPE 13). Power, heart rate and psychological measures were analyzed. This study highlighted an improvement in men’s and women’s power output when a negative stereotype about women was induced, coupled with an increase of heart rate, during the entire 20-min of self-paced cycling exercise, as compared to when the nullified-stereotype was induced. In other words, for the same perceived intensity, participants developed more power, suggesting a better engagement in the task. To conclude, the present research showed that only a verbal negative stereotype can modify the RPE/intensity relation. Consequently, even if this method is reliable, personal trainers should pay close attention to the context in which they place their patients because this can influence their perception and thus impact their performance. [1] Row Lazzarini, B.S., Dropp, M.W., & Lloyd, W. (2017). Upper-extremity explosive resistance training with older adults can be regulated using the rating of perceived exertion. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research. 31(3),831-6 [2] Hutchinson, J.C., Sherman, T., Martinovic, N., & Tenenbaum, G. (2008). The effect of manipulated self-efficacy on perceived and sustained effort. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 20, 457-472 [3] Hively, K., & El-Alayli, A. (2014). “You throw like a girl:” The effect of stereotype threat on women’s athletic performance and gender stereotypes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15, 48–55. [4] Jones, N.L, & Killian, K.J. (2000). Exercise limitation in health and disease. New England Journal of Medicine. 343(9), 632-641

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Psychologie
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hal-04692855 , version 1 (10-09-2024)

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Maxime Deshayes, Raphael Zory, Allison Seitchik, Aïna Chalabaev, Corentin Clément-Guillotin. "Men are better than women !" : The positive effect of stereotype threat on self-paced cycling exercise.. 14ème journée de l’Ecole Doctorale Sciences du Mouvement Humain, 2018, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-04692855⟩
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