The present study examines how target group’s stereotype content (on warmth and competence dimensions) influences subsequent target evaluation following self-threat related to one’s competence. Participants first received threatening or non-threatening feedback on their competence. They evaluated then a job candidate who was stereotyped either as competent and cold (Asian) or as warm and incompetent (working mother). As predicted, threatened participants derogated only the Asian target on her perceived warmth and her suitability for a job, but did not derogate the working mother. Moreover, perceived warmth mediated the observed differences in the evaluation of the targets’ job suitability. These results extend research on self-threat and prejudice by including Stereotype Content Model in this link.

This article aims to validate the factorial structure of the perceived stress scale (PSS10) within the French working population. The analyses conducted confirmed the presence of two distinct factors, interpreted in terms of perceived work overload and perceived personal efficacy. Both factors presented good internal consistency and adequate validity of construct. The authors show and illustrate the predicted link between the two factors and the levels of anxiety and depression. Thus, the PSS 10 is a bi-dimensional scale with satisfactory psychometric proprieties. The results are discussed in the light of their theoretical and practical implications.

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