Influence of sex role attitudes and cognitive styles on career decision making.

Harren, Vincent A.; Kass, Richard A.; Tinsley, Howard E. A.; Moreland, James Porter

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.25.5.390

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“…The results suggest that there was no significant difference in the career certainty of males and females (e.g. Harren et al, 1978;Lunneborg, 1975;Daniels et al, 2011;Guay et al, 2003;Esters, 2007). The age of students was also the subject of research and led to conflicting results.…”

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Career Certainty: Differences Between Career Certain and Uncertain Engineering Students

Schadl

Sheppard

Chen

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her Ph.D. in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford University. Her current research interests include: 1) engineering and entrepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) redesigning the traditional academic transcript.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Career Certainty: Differences between career certain and uncertain engineering students AbstractTo gain a deeper understanding of the career decisions of undergraduate engineering students, this research paper explores the differences between students who show a high degree of career certainty and those who are rather uncertain about what their professional future should look like. These analyses were based on a dataset from a nationwide survey of engineering undergraduates (n=5,819) from 27 institutions in the United States. The survey was designed with an interest in understanding engineering students' career pathways. For the purpose of this study, students were designated as either "career uncertain" or "career certain" according to their survey answers. Those two groups were then compared against a variety of background characteristics, past experiences and personality variables.The results suggest that career uncertain and career certain students do not differ on background variables such as gender, age or family income. However, when it comes to students' past experiences, the percentage of students who had already gained internship experiences during their time in college was significantly higher among career certain students as compared to career uncertain students. As expected, seniors were more certain about their professional future than juniors. Similarly, a higher percentage of career certain students reported talking about their professional future with other students or faculty members more frequently. Furthermore, career certain students were significantly more likely to show a higher level of innovation self-efficacy and engineering task self-efficacy. In addition, career certain students were more likely to have career goals that involved innovation and they also considered several job characteristics as more important than did uncertain students. On average, career certain engineering students were also more certain about staying in engineering one, five and ten years after graduation.Overall, the results of this research suggest that more hands-on experiences and fostering stronger beliefs in their engineering skills can contribute to undergraduates becoming more certain about their future professional careers.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Career Certainty: Differences Between Career Certain and Uncertain Engineering Students

Schadl

Sheppard

Chen

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…Nonetheless, research only partially supports this proposition. Several studies that examined the relationship between a rational style and progress in decision-making on tasks have shown positive or trivial results (Harren et al, 1978;Lunneborg, 1978;Phillips et al, 1984). Individuals that are in rational decision-making style forestall the need to make a decision and prepare for it by seeking relevant information about themselves and their environment before committing to a particular decision.…”

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Impact of individual decision-making styles on marketing information system based decision-making

2015

IJIED

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Marketing information system (MIS) enables data processing and transformation of data into valuable information that results in a more effective decision-making from which companies benefit. However, human aspect is still an influential factor in the decision-making process. We conceptualize a connection between decision-making styles of employees, inherent in their habits and practices, and marketing innovation system based on the decision-making process. Through a detailed literature review, a link between spontaneous, individual, rational and dependent decision-making styles with quality and speed of MIS decision-making has been conceived and constructed. We suggest that decision-making styles influence both quality and speed of the decision-making process. Furthermore, quality and speed of MIS decision-making have a positive influence on radical and incremental marketing innovation. This study enriches the body of literature that focuses on the human-technology interaction and is valuable for companies implementing and using MIS to make business decisions.

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“…According to Harren, Kass, Tinsley and Moreland (1978) gender, sex role attitudes and cognitive styles had little direct influence on choice of a university major. Bergeron and Romano (1994) found no gender differences in the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy, vocational indecision and educational indecision.…”

Section: Gender and Language Differences In Career Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Career Indecision Amongst Prospective University Students

Gordon

Meyer

2002

South African Journal of Psychology

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Counselling of the University of Stellenbosch for guidance in selecting an occupation or university course, suggest that there is a high level of career indecision amongst such individuals. With the purpose of addressing career indecision, the present study examined the nature thereof amongst prospective university students. The prevalence of specific aspects of career maturity (namely, self-information, decision-making, career information, integration of self-information and career information, and career planning) underlying career indecision were investigated, as well as the correlations between these aspects. In addition, the correlations between the aspects of career maturity and certain biographical variables such as gender, home language, declared career choice, differentiation of interests, and self-reported level of career indecision were examined.Eighty-four prospective students, who presented for career counselling at the Centre for Student Counselling of the University of Stellenbosch, served as subjects in the study.The subjects completed the Career Development Questionnaire (CDQ), the Meyer Interest Questionnaire (MB-10) and a biographical questionnaire compiled by the researcher. The results of the study indicated that a substantial number of prospective university students experience career indecision. There were statistically significant correlations (p<0,01) between the 5 scales of the CDQ. In addition, there were statistically significant correlations (p<0,01) between the 5 scales of the CDQ, and self-reported level of career indecision. There were no clinically significant correlations between gender and home language, and any other variable measured. An attempt was made to address career indecision amongst the population group by making certain recommendations regarding the content and process of career counselling for prospective university students.

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Influence of sex role attitudes and cognitive styles on career decision making.

Cited by 76 publications

References 15 publications

Career Certainty: Differences Between Career Certain and Uncertain Engineering Students

Career Certainty: Differences Between Career Certain and Uncertain Engineering Students

Impact of individual decision-making styles on marketing information system based decision-making

Career Indecision Amongst Prospective University Students

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