Promoting sense of belonging and interest in the geosciences among undergraduate women through mentoring
Promoting sense of belonging and interest in the geosciences among undergraduate women through mentoring
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DOI：
10.1080/13611267.2023.2225395
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发表时间：
2023-06-22
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Fischer, Emily V.
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作者：
Du, Wenyi;Hernandez, Paul R.;Fischer, Emily V.
STEM领域多样化的努力并没有完全消除女性离开某些科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科（如地球科学）的比例较高。一个多样化的导师网络与大学生对STEM的坚持有关，但人们对它如何导致坚持知之甚少。特别是，学生的归属感是否会调节导师网络的多样性和在某一领域的坚持性之间的关系？本研究探讨学生的大学归属感是否在导师网络多样性与地学兴趣之间起中介作用。来自美国9所大学的253名STEM专业的女大学生报告了2018年春季至2019年春季她们导师网络的多样性、大学的吸引力以及对地球科学的兴趣。与我们的假设相一致，中介分析显示，通过大学归属感的兴趣发展的导师网络的多样性的统计和实际显着的间接影响。
Efforts to diversify STEM fields have not completely eliminated higher rates of women leaving certain science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, such as geosciences. A diverse mentorship network is linked to persistence in STEM among college students, but little is known about how it leads to persistence. In particular, does a student's sense of belonging mediate the relationship between the diversity of one's mentor network and persistence in a field? This longitudinal study investigated whether students' university sense of belonging mediates the relationship between the diversity of mentor networks and interest in geoscience. 253 college women in STEM majors from nine U.S. universities reported on the diversity of their mentor networks, university belongingness, and interest in geoscience from Spring 2018 to Spring 2019. Consistent with our hypotheses, mediation analysis revealed a statistically and practically significant indirect effect of the diversity of mentor networks on interest development through university belonging.