How Parents’ Stereotypical Beliefs Relate to Students’ Motivation and Career Aspirations in Mathematics and Language Arts

eldred2 · 2022-08-30T23:19:07+00:00

Examination of the data revealed that missing data ranged from 4 to 5%. In addition, the non-significant result of Little’s test [χ2(33) = 26.92, p = 0.763] suggested that missingness was completely at random. Therefore, full information maximum likelihood was used to address missing data in MPlus (Muthén and Muthén, (1998-2017)) using the MLR estimator.

Am I reading this right? Their study didn't have significant results, so they just decided to pretend it did?

UnHope20 · 2022-08-30T22:15:52+00:00

Despite progress, gender gaps persist in mathematical and language-related fields, and gender stereotypes likely play a role.

The current study examines the relations between parents’ gender-related beliefs and their adolescent child’s motivation and career aspirations through a survey of 172 parent-child dyads.

Parents reported their gendered beliefs about ability in mathematics and language arts, as well as their prescriptive gender role beliefs.

Students reported their expectancies and values in these two domains, as well as their career aspirations

The results of path models suggested that parents’ ability stereotypes about language boosted girls’ motivation for language arts, thereby nudging them away from STEM pathways. Girls’ career aspirations stemmed not only from their valuation of the corresponding domain, but also from their valuation of competing domains. Such findings highlight the need to consider multiple domains simultaneously in order to better capture the complexity of girls’ career decisions.

For boys, parents’ language ability stereotypes were directly related to mathematical career aspirations. These results suggest that stereotypes that language arts is not for boys push them instead toward mathematics.

Our study also highlighted the unique role of parental beliefs in traditional gender roles for boys’ motivation and career aspirations. Specifically, parents’ gender role stereotypes directly related to less interest in language arts only among boys.

This highlights that research into gender gaps in female-dominated fields should consider stereotypes related to appropriate behavior and social roles for boys.

Title	How Parents’ Stereotypical Beliefs Relate to Students’ Motivation and Career Aspirations in Mathematics and Language Arts
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	8
Comments	2
Date	August 30, 2022 10:13 PM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
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