Reciprocal Associations Between Science Efficacy, STEM Identity and Scientist Career Interest Among Adolescent Girls within the Context of Informal Science Learning.

Adolescents Career interest Girls Informal science learning STEM identity Science efficacy

Journal

Journal of youth and adolescence
ISSN: 1573-6601
Titre abrégé: J Youth Adolesc
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0333507

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 03 07 2023
accepted: 10 09 2023
medline: 11 10 2023
pubmed: 11 10 2023
entrez: 11 10 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Limited research has explored the longitudinal pathway to youth career interests via identity and efficacy together. This study examined the longitudinal associations between science efficacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) identity, and scientist career interest among girls who are historically considered as an underrepresented group among scientists. The sample included 308 girls (M

Identifiants

pubmed: 37819476
doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01868-6
pii: 10.1007/s10964-023-01868-6
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 206259/Z/17/Z
Pays : United Kingdom

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© 2023. Crown.

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Auteurs

Mengya Zhao (M)

University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. m.zhao@exeter.ac.uk.

Emine Ozturk (E)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Fidelia Law (F)

University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Angelina Joy (A)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

Ashley R Deutsch (AR)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Christina S Marlow (CS)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Channing J Mathews (CJ)

University of Virginia, Charlotteville, VA, USA.

Luke McGuire (L)

University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Adam J Hoffman (AJ)

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

Frances Balkwill (F)

Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Karen P Burns (KP)

Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.

Laurence Butler (L)

Thinktank Science Museum, Birmingham, UK.

Marc Drews (M)

EdVenture, Columbia, SC, USA.

Grace Fields (G)

School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties, Irmo, SC, USA.

Hannah Smith (H)

The Florence Nightingale Museum, London, UK.

Mark Winterbottom (M)

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Kelly Lynn Mulvey (KL)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Adam Hartstone-Rose (A)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Adam Rutland (A)

University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

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