Academic Gender Bias and Women's Behavioral Agency Self-Efficacy
✍ Scribed by Julie R. Ancis; Susan D. Phillips
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 419 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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✦ Synopsis
The relationship between academic gender bias and female students' agentic self-efficacy expectations was examined. Agentic self-efficacy expectations was defined as an individual's beliefs about her ability to successfully engage in proactive educational and career facilitative behaviors. Participants included 67 full-time junior and senior undergraduate women enrolled in traditional, nontraditional, and gender-neutral majors. Results revealed that perceived academic gender bias was significantly predictive of agentic self-efficacy expectations, above and beyond the contributions of sex role attitudes, gender concentration of major, and race/ethnicity. Implications for women's career development and future research are discussed.