Longitudinal Influences of Educational Aspirations and Romantic Relationships on Adolescent Women's Vocational Interests

Meinster, Martha O.; Rose, Karen C.

doi:10.1006/jvbe.2000.1772

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“…Meinster and Rose (2001) found that high school girls' career interests became increasingly traditional from freshman to senior year. Hallett and Gilbert (1997) found that, among college women who planned to be part of a dual career couple, those who expected to share roles with their spouses had higher self-esteem, higher levels of instrumentality, and higher commitment to a lifelong career than those who expected to have a conventional dual-career marriage (with traditional divisions of household labor).…”

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Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations

Frome

Alfeld²,

Eccles

et al. 2006

Educational Research and Evaluation

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We examined 2 hypotheses regarding why some young women do not maintain their espoused occupational aspirations in male-dominated fields from late adolescence through young adulthood. The first hypothesis concerns attitudes towards math and science; the second concerns the desire for job flexibility. The sample of young women (N ¼ 104) was taken from a larger longitudinal investigation of approximately 1,000 young women from a midwestern metropolitan area in Michigan, USA, who were followed from age 18 (in 1990) to age 25 (1997). Findings suggest that desire for a flexible job, high time demands of an occupation, and low intrinsic value of physical science were the best predictors of women changing their occupational aspirations out of maledominated fields. These results suggest that despite the women's movement and more efforts in society to open occupational doors to traditional male-jobs for women, concerns about balancing career and family, together with lower value for science-related domains, continue to steer young women away from occupations in traditionally male-dominated fields, where their abilities and ambitions may lie.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations

Frome

Alfeld²,

Eccles

et al. 2006

Educational Research and Evaluation

161

105

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“…Early models looked to single variables as influencers of female aspirations (Astin 1984;Gottfredson 1981;Hackett and Betz 1981;Rainey and Borders 1997); however, researchers have since concluded that comprehensive, multidimensional models containing both individual and societal factors are the most accurate approach to analyzing aspiration development (Fassinger 1990;O'Brien and Fassinger 1993). Factors that have been shown to influence aspirations include dating relationships (Meinster and Rose 2001), social networks (Basow and Howe 1980;Hallinan and Williams 1990), parental upbringing (Kerpelman and Schvaneveldt 1999;Schroeder et al 1992), ethnicity (Bronzaft 1991), and intellectual capability (Garman and Plant 1975;Lyson and Brown 1982). These factors give valuable insight into life aspirations, especially when considered in conjunction with one another; however, it is probable that the traditional roles emphasized within the church also impact such aspirations.…”

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The Baby Blanket or the Briefcase: The Impact of Evangelical Gender Role Ideologies on Career and Mothering Aspirations of Female Evangelical College Students

Colaner

Giles

2007

Sex Roles

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This study examines the relationship between the Evangelical gender role ideologies termed Complementarianism and Egalitarianism and mothering and career aspirations among Evangelical female college students. We surveyed 134 women from two colleges in the United States, one in the Midwest and one in the South. Using a cross-sectional, selfreport survey design, we examined the interaction between career aspirations and mothering aspirations as well as the impact of Evangelical gender role ideologies on both types of aspirations. Results indicated that career and home aspirations were negatively correlated. Mothering aspirations were shown to be significantly affected by conservative gender role ideology. These findings suggest that aspirations for one's mothering role may be influenced by ideological positions.

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“…Students are theorized to use some combination of these variables in making their ultimate career decisions, and research has shown that the development of these dimensions (e.g., interests, skills, values) is dependent on a host of additional predictor variables. These can include environmental experiences; family influence (Whiston & Keller, 2004); disability (Hitchings, Luzzo, Retish, Horvath, & Ristow, 1998); lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identity (Tomlinson & Fassinger, 2003); educational goals (Meinster & Rose, 2001); gender (Lippa, 1998); and race or culture (Worthington, Flores, & Navarro, 2005). In this exploratory study, one of our goals was to understand how some of these previously studied constructs might relate to students' experiences of a career calling.…”

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The Salience of a Career Calling Among College Students: Exploring Group Differences and Links to Religiousness, Life Meaning, and Life Satisfaction

Duffy

Sedlacek

2010

The Career Development Quart

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The authors examined the degree to which 1 st-year college students endorse a career calling and how levels of calling differ across demographic variables and religiousness, life meaning, and life satisfaction. Forty-four percent of students believed tliat having a career calling was mostly or totally true of them, and 28% responded to searching for a calling in the same fashion. Students seeking advanced professional degrees were more likely to feel a career calling, and the presence of a calling was found to weakly correlate with religiousness and life satisfaction and moderately correlate with life meaning. Practice implications are suggested.

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Longitudinal Influences of Educational Aspirations and Romantic Relationships on Adolescent Women's Vocational Interests

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations

Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations

The Baby Blanket or the Briefcase: The Impact of Evangelical Gender Role Ideologies on Career and Mothering Aspirations of Female Evangelical College Students

The Salience of a Career Calling Among College Students: Exploring Group Differences and Links to Religiousness, Life Meaning, and Life Satisfaction

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