A CAUSAL MODEL OF COLLEGE MAJOR CHOICE FOR WOMEN IN NURSING AND MEDICINE (WOMEN STUDENTS, NURSING EDUCATION).
Contributors: Arizona State University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Education, Guidance and Counseling.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.
Description: This study tested a self-efficacy model of women's career choice of medical versus nonmedical professions through structural equation modeling and path analysis procedures. The model examined the influence of gender, sources of efficacy information, self-efficacy expectations, outcome expectations and interests on career choice and academic achievement. Participants were 279 students from university survival, organic chemistry and nursing courses. The self-efficacy model was compared to Krumboltz's social learning model of career decision-making as a test of the predictive utility of self-efficacy expectations in addition to performance and learning experiences. The self-efficacy model encompassed the social learning model with the additions of self-efficacy and outcome expectations. Results indicated that sources of efficacy information significantly influenced gender differences in occupational self-efficacy, academic milestones self-efficacy, and outcome expectations for nursing and pre-medicine college majors. Neither the social learning nor the self-efficacy models were significantly predictive of college major choice or academic success. Limitations of the study and implications for counseling and research are discussed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-09, Section: A, page: 3108.

Thesis (PH.D.)--ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0010.