Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM
Seeking congruity for communal and agentic goals: a longitudinal examination of U.S. college women’s persistence in STEM
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寻求公共目标和能动目标的一致性：对美国女大学生坚持 STEM 的纵向考察
DOI：
10.1007/s11218-021-09679-y
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Hernandez, Paul R.
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作者：
Henderson, Heather L.;Bloodhart, Brittany;Adams, Amanda S.;Barnes, Rebecca T.;Burt, Melissa;Clinton, Sandra;Godfrey, Elaine;Pollack, Ilana;Fischer, Emily V.;Hernandez, Paul R.
大量文献探讨了女性在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域获得公平代表性的障碍，许多研究表明，STEM 领域被认为无法实现共同目标，而共同目标是女性对未来职业兴趣的关键组成部分。使用目标一致性理论作为框架，我们测试了美国 STEM 专业女性对 STEM 职业目标可供性、个人社区和代理目标认可的看法的纵向影响，以及它们对大学二年级到四年级坚持科学的一致性的影响。我们发现，女性坚持科学的意愿在第二年秋天最高，但坚持意愿急剧下降，最终在大学第四年趋于平稳。这种模式受到对 STEM 中能动性可供性的认知的影响，认为 STEM 职业提供了成就机会和个人主义的女性经历了较小的下降。我们发现，对 STEM 中公共目标可供性的更高认知一致预示着更高的持久性意图，这表明女性可能会从 STEM 提供公共目标的认知中受益。最后，我们发现在 STEM 中具有较高能动性可供性的女性也有更大的坚持意愿，并且这种关系对于具有较高能动性目标的女性来说更强烈。我们的结论是，由于 STEM 领域被刻板印象为提供能动性目标，因此在大学第一年发现对 STEM 专业感兴趣的女性可能会因此被吸引到这些领域，并可能受益于 STEM 提供能动性目标的看法。
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.
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DOI：
10.1080/10705510802154307
发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
6
作者：
Enders, Craig K.
通讯作者：
Enders, Craig K.
STEM 博士早期就业结果的性别差异
DOI：
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发表时间：
2017
期刊：
影响因子：
--
作者：
K. Shauman
通讯作者：
K. Shauman
以 STEM 专业为重点的目标大学专业的坚持模式。
DOI：
10.12930/0271-9517-30.2.19
发表时间：
2010
期刊：
NACADA Journal
影响因子：
--
作者：
Emily J. Shaw;Sandra M. Barbuti
通讯作者：
Sandra M. Barbuti
影响因子：
11.4
作者：
Hayes, Andrew F.;Coutts, Jacob J.
通讯作者：
Coutts, Jacob J.
影响因子：
4
作者：
Evans, Clifford D.;Diekman, Amanda B.
通讯作者：
Diekman, Amanda B.