Pre-college STEM camps as developmental context: Mediational relations between gender, career decidedness, socioemotional development, and engagement
Pre-college STEM camps as developmental context: Mediational relations between gender, career decidedness, socioemotional development, and engagement
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104584
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Sandoval, Alexandra
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作者：
Gagnon, Ryan J.;Sandoval, Alexandra
STEM内女性人数不足的一种潜在机制是使用校外时间和营地，并具有支持人员，讲师和对社会情感发展的平行方向。这项研究研究了可能介导365个青春期露营者样本中的前一周的STEM营地经验中性别与STEM职业志向之间的关系的因素。露营者的平均年龄为15.58岁，主要是白人（69.8％）和男性（51.8％）。中介结构方程模型（SEM）的结果表明，社会情感发展并没有调解性别与职业决定性之间的关系，男性和女性STEM职业决定性之间没有统计学差异。缺乏效果可能是由于系统和持续强调少数群体和代表性不足的群体（特别是女性）的茎技能和愿望的结果。
One potential mechanism to mitigate the underrepresentation of females within STEM is the use of Out-of-School-Time programs and camps with supportive staff, instructors, and parallel orientation towards socioemotional development. This study examines factors which may mediate the relation between gender and STEM career aspiration within a pre-collegiate week-long STEM camp experience among a sample of 365 adolescent campers. Campers were an average of 15.58 years old, primarily white (69.8%), and male (51.8%). The results of the mediational structural equation model (SEM) suggested socioemotional development did not mediate the relation between gender and career decidedness, and there was no statistical difference between male and female STEM career decidedness. The lack of effect could be a result of the systematic and ongoing emphasis towards the development of STEM skills and aspiration within minority and underrepresented groups, specifically females.