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LIFE GOALS: ANTECEDENTS IN GENDER BELIEFS AND EFFECTS ON GENDER-STEREOTYPICAL CAREER INTEREST

Evans, Clifford D.

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2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
This research employed a social role perspective to examine gender differences in life goals and career preferences, how life goals are informed by gender beliefs, and the causal relationship between life goals and career preferences. Men endorsed status goals and male-stereotypical careers more than women, women endorsed family goals and female-stereotypical careers more than men, and mediational analysis demonstrated that life goals mediated the relationship between sex and career interest. Structural equation modeling indicated that as gendered self-concept and prescriptive gender stereotypes became more agentic than communal, life goals became more status-centered than family-centered, and career interest became more male-stereotypical than female-stereotypical. In an experimental priming study, participants primed with family goals trended toward increased endorsement of female-stereotypical careers, and participants primed with status goals decreased endorsement of female-stereotypical careers.
Amanda Diekman (Advisor)
57 p.

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  • Evans, C. D. (2006). LIFE GOALS: ANTECEDENTS IN GENDER BELIEFS AND EFFECTS ON GENDER-STEREOTYPICAL CAREER INTEREST [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1153327423

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Evans, Clifford. LIFE GOALS: ANTECEDENTS IN GENDER BELIEFS AND EFFECTS ON GENDER-STEREOTYPICAL CAREER INTEREST. 2006. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1153327423.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Evans, Clifford. "LIFE GOALS: ANTECEDENTS IN GENDER BELIEFS AND EFFECTS ON GENDER-STEREOTYPICAL CAREER INTEREST." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1153327423

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)