%0 Journal Article
%T Cardiovascular and Self
%A Abdiel J. Flores
%A Bettina J. Casad
%A Niall Bolger
%A Tanya A. Chavez
%J Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
%@ 1552-7433
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0146167218795157
%X This work examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES)-based social identity threat on cardiovascular indexes of challenge and threat and self-regulatory strength. Participants (N = 104) took an exam described as either diagnostic of intellectual ability (identity threat) or framed as a problem-solving task (control) while we recorded cardiovascular reactivity and assessed participants¡¯ physical self-control. Under identity threat, lower SES students exhibited impaired performance, reduced self-control, and cardiovascular threat reactivity. In contrast, higher SES students under threat exhibited the reverse pattern¡ªa boost in performance, no change in self-regulation, and cardiovascular challenge reactivity. Furthermore, while measures of general arousal (heart rate and pre-ejection period) were unrelated to performance, cardiovascular patterns of challenge and threat were significantly associated with performance under identity threat. Results provide evidence that SES-based stigma influences physiological and self-regulatory processes
%K socioeconomic status
%K social identity threat
%K stereotype threat
%K challenge and threat
%K self-regulation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167218795157