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Rice, Kenneth G.; Lopez, Frederick G.; Richardson, Clarissa M. E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
We examined perfectionistic personality characteristics and their association with science self-efficacy beliefs and academic performance among college students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We were especially interested in gender differences in effects given that women remain significantly underrepresented in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), STEM Education, Personality Traits
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Lent, Robert W.; Lopez, Frederick G.; Sheu, Hung-Bin; Lopez, Antonio M., Jr. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
In a replication and extension of earlier research, we examined the explanatory adequacy of the social cognitive choice model (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) in a sample of 1404 students majoring in a variety of computing disciplines at 23 historically Black and 27 predominantly White universities. Participants completed measures of self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Selection, Predictor Variables, Majors (Students)