Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM
| العنوان: | Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM |
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| المؤلفون: | Heather L. Henderson, Brittany Bloodhart, Amanda S. Adams, Rebecca T. Barnes, Melissa Burt, Sandra Clinton, Elaine Godfrey, Ilana Pollack, Emily V. Fischer, Paul R. Hernandez |
| المصدر: | Social Psychology of Education. 25:649-674 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education |
| الوصف: | An abundance of literature has examined barriers to women’s equitable representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, with many studies demonstrating that STEM fields are not perceived to afford communal goals, a key component of women’s interest in future careers. Using Goal Congruity Theory as a framework, we tested the longitudinal impact of perceptions of STEM career goal affordances, personal communal and agentic goal endorsements, and their congruity on persistence in science from the second through fourth years of college among women in STEM majors in the United States. We found that women’s intent to persist in science were highest in the fall of their second year, that persistence intentions exhibited a sharp decline, and eventually leveled off by their fourth year of college. This pattern was moderated by perceptions of agentic affordances in STEM, such that women who believe that STEM careers afford the opportunity for achievement and individualism experienced smaller declines. We found that higher perceptions of communal goal affordances in STEM consistently predicted higher persistence intentions indicating women may benefit from perceptions that STEM affords communal goals. Finally, we found women with higher agentic affordances in STEM also had greater intentions to persist, and this relationship was stronger for women with higher agentic goals. We conclude that because STEM fields are stereotyped as affording agentic goals, women who identify interest in a STEM major during their first years of college may be drawn to these fields for this reason and may benefit from perceptions that STEM affords agentic goals. |
| تدمد: | 1573-1928 1381-2890 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2718a35831ea82dc8a7121a6afa56bd4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-021-09679-y |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........2718a35831ea82dc8a7121a6afa56bd4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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