Testing intersectionality of race/ethnicity × gender in a social–cognitive career theory model with science identity. Byars-Winston, A. & Rogers, J. G. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66(1):30–44, 2019. Place: US Publisher: American Psychological Association
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Using social–cognitive career theory, we identified the experiential sources of learning that contribute to research self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, and science identity for culturally diverse undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and math (i.e., STEM) majors. We examined group differences by race/ethnicity and gender to investigate potential cultural variations in a model to explain students’ research career intentions. Using a sample of 688 undergraduate students, we ran a series of path models testing the relationships between the experiential sources, research self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, and science identity to research career intentions. Findings were largely consistent with our hypotheses in that research self-efficacy and outcome expectancies were directly and positively associated with research career intentions and the associations of the experiential sources to intentions were mediated via self-efficacy. Science identity contributed significant though modest variance to research career intentions indirectly via its positive association with outcome expectations. Science identity also partially mediated the efficacy-outcome expectancies path. The experiential sources of learning were associated in expected directions to research self-efficacy with 3 of the sources emerging as significantly correlated with science identity. An unexpected direct relationship from vicarious learning to intentions was observed. In testing for group differences by race/ethnicity and gender in subsamples of Black/African American and Latino/a students, we found that the hypothesized model incorporating science identity was supported, and most paths did not vary significantly across four Race/Ethnicity × Gender groups, except for 3 paths. Research and practice implications of the findings for supporting research career intentions of culturally diverse undergraduate students are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
@article{byars-winston_testing_2019,
	title = {Testing intersectionality of race/ethnicity × gender in a social–cognitive career theory model with science identity.},
	volume = {66},
	issn = {1939-2168(Electronic),0022-0167(Print)},
	doi = {10.1037/cou0000309},
	abstract = {Using social–cognitive career theory, we identified the experiential sources of learning that contribute to research self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, and science identity for culturally diverse undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and math (i.e., STEM) majors. We examined group differences by race/ethnicity and gender to investigate potential cultural variations in a model to explain students’ research career intentions. Using a sample of 688 undergraduate students, we ran a series of path models testing the relationships between the experiential sources, research self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, and science identity to research career intentions. Findings were largely consistent with our hypotheses in that research self-efficacy and outcome expectancies were directly and positively associated with research career intentions and the associations of the experiential sources to intentions were mediated via self-efficacy. Science identity contributed significant though modest variance to research career intentions indirectly via its positive association with outcome expectations. Science identity also partially mediated the efficacy-outcome expectancies path. The experiential sources of learning were associated in expected directions to research self-efficacy with 3 of the sources emerging as significantly correlated with science identity. An unexpected direct relationship from vicarious learning to intentions was observed. In testing for group differences by race/ethnicity and gender in subsamples of Black/African American and Latino/a students, we found that the hypothesized model incorporating science identity was supported, and most paths did not vary significantly across four Race/Ethnicity × Gender groups, except for 3 paths. Research and practice implications of the findings for supporting research career intentions of culturally diverse undergraduate students are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Journal of Counseling Psychology},
	author = {Byars-Winston, Angela and Rogers, Jenna Griebel},
	year = {2019},
	note = {Place: US
Publisher: American Psychological Association},
	keywords = {*Human Sex Differences, *Occupational Aspirations, *Racial and Ethnic Differences, *Science Education, *Self-Efficacy, College Students, Intention, Intersectionality, STEM, Social Cognition, Student Attitudes, Test Construction, Undergraduate Education},
	pages = {30--44},
}

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