GSE/RES: Life Goals, Gender Roles, and STEM Career Interest

GSE/RES：人生目标、性别角色和 STEM 职业兴趣

• 批准号: 1136266
• 负责人: Joan Barth
• 金额: $ 52.48万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1136266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; RES; Life; Goals; Gender

Intellectual Merit: The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa is investigating how life goals and gender roles interact to effect changes in STEM career interests and college majors over the course of the college years. The study will: a) systematically examine multiple aspects of communal goals, including marriage, family, and helping; b) investigate the impact of romantic relationship goals and the gender roles that accompany them in predicting women?s STEM interest; and c) examine how Biology majors, where women are more represented, compare to other STEM majors with respect to life goals and gender roles. The project will meet these objectives through a longitudinal study of college students who are considering a major in STEM. First and third year STEM students will be surveyed about their life goals, perceptions of gender roles, and career interests at three time points approximately one year apart. A subset of women in serious romantic relationships and their partners will complete additional measures about their expectations for their future work, relationship, and family roles. The research will document changes in majors and career interests and their association with changes in life goals and perceptions of gender roles. Both survey and experimental methods are used to measure these constructs. Broader Impacts: The proposed research will fill a significant gap in what educators know and understand about STEM career decisions during the critical college years and thus can facilitate the development of strategies for retaining more women in STEM majors. In particular, if women can be shown ways in which important life goals can be met while having a STEM career, they may be more likely to remain in a STEM field. Research infrastructure will be improved by forging relationships between professionals involved in STEM education research and practice with those with more basic psychological research interests, leading to cross-fertilization between practice and research.

智力优势：阿拉巴马大学塔斯卡卢萨分校正在研究生活目标和性别角色如何相互作用，以影响大学期间 STEM 职业兴趣和大学专业的变化。该研究将： a) 系统地考察共同目标的多个方面，包括婚姻、家庭和帮助； b) 调查浪漫关系目标以及伴随这些目标的性别角色在预测女性 STEM 兴趣方面的影响； c) 研究女性比例较高的生物学专业与其他 STEM 专业在生活目标和性别角色方面的比较。 该项目将通过对正在考虑主修 STEM 的大学生进行纵向研究来实现这些目标。一年级和三年级 STEM 学生将在大约一年的三个时间点接受关于他们的人生目标、性别角色认知和职业兴趣的调查。一部分处于认真恋爱关系中的女性及其伴侣将完成有关她们对未来工作、人际关系和家庭角色的期望的额外措施。该研究将记录专业和职业兴趣的变化及其与生活目标和性别角色认知变化的关系。调查和实验方法都用于测量这些结构。更广泛的影响：拟议的研究将填补教育工作者在关键的大学时期对 STEM 职业决策的认识和理解方面的重大空白，从而有助于制定策略，以保留更多 STEM 专业的女性。特别是，如果能够向女性展示在从事 STEM 职业的同时实现重要人生目标的方法，她们可能更有可能留在 STEM 领域。通过在参与 STEM 教育研究和实践的专业人员与具有更多基础心理学研究兴趣的人员之间建立联系，研究基础设施将得到改善，从而实现实践与研究之间的交叉融合。