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The work and family role orientations of STEM students
Students in the future can expect to partake in two life roles as adults: a work role and family role. This study investigated the life role salience of students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (N = 191) and examined the extent to which their gender role ideology and percei...
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Organisational Psychology
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| author | Nzima, Ntombeziningi |
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| description | Students in the future can expect to partake in two life roles as adults: a work role and family role. This study investigated the life role salience of students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (N = 191) and examined the extent to which their gender role ideology and perceived parental work-family conflict are predictors of life role salience. Regression analysis showed that students with traditional gender role ideologies had greater family role salience and students with egalitarian gender role ideologies had greater work role salience. Further analysis showed that students' family role salience was predicted by the work-family conflict of their same-sex parent. The implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/25416 The work and family role orientations of STEM students Nzima, Ntombeziningi Bagraim, Jeffrey Jaga, Ameeta Organisational Psychology Students in the future can expect to partake in two life roles as adults: a work role and family role. This study investigated the life role salience of students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (N = 191) and examined the extent to which their gender role ideology and perceived parental work-family conflict are predictors of life role salience. Regression analysis showed that students with traditional gender role ideologies had greater family role salience and students with egalitarian gender role ideologies had greater work role salience. Further analysis showed that students' family role salience was predicted by the work-family conflict of their same-sex parent. The implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed. 2017-09-26T14:58:21Z 2017-09-26T14:58:21Z 2017 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25416 eng application/pdf Organisational Psychology Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Organisational Psychology Nzima, Ntombeziningi The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| title_full | The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| title_fullStr | The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| title_full_unstemmed | The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| title_short | The work and family role orientations of STEM students |
| title_sort | work and family role orientations of stem students |
| topic | Organisational Psychology |
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