Bridging the Gender Gap in Academic Engagement among Young Adults: The Role of Anticipated Future Sex Discrimination and Gender-role Orientation.

IF 4.3 3区 材料科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC
ACS Applied Electronic Materials Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-16 DOI:10.1007/s10964-024-02009-3
Jia Xu, Lixia Yu, Xiaowen Zhang
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Abstract

Academic engagement is vital for college students, yet existing studies reveal inconsistencies in how gender influences academic engagement. Building upon the statistical discrimination theory and identity-based motivation theory, this study develops an integrated model to examine gender differences in college students' academic engagement. Further, the role that gender-role orientation in influencing academic engagement was investigated. Using a sample of 524 college students (Mage = 21.11, SD = 1.98; 47.7% women) from a large university collected in two time periods, the findings indicate that in the Chinese context, women anticipate higher future sex discrimination than men. However, gender-role orientation restores parity between men and women through a moderated mediation: egalitarian gender-role orientation has a stronger effect on women's anticipated future sex discrimination than on men's, resulting in increased academic engagement of women. The findings highlight the need to consider female students' egalitarian beliefs in gender-related academic research.

缩小青少年学术参与中的性别差距:预期的未来性别歧视和性别角色取向的作用》(The Role of Anticipated Future Sex Discrimination and Gender-role Orientation.
学业投入对大学生至关重要,但现有研究显示,性别对学业投入的影响并不一致。本研究以统计歧视理论和基于身份的动机理论为基础,建立了一个综合模型来研究大学生学业投入的性别差异。此外,研究还探讨了性别角色取向在影响学业投入中的作用。通过对一所大型大学的 524 名大学生(平均年龄 = 21.11,平均标准偏差 = 1.98;47.7% 为女性)在两个时间段内的抽样调查,研究结果表明,在中国背景下,女性对未来性别歧视的预期高于男性。然而,性别角色取向通过调节中介恢复了男女之间的平等:平等的性别角色取向对女性未来性别歧视预期的影响比对男性的影响更大,从而提高了女性的学术参与度。研究结果突出表明,在与性别相关的学术研究中,有必要考虑女学生的平等主义信念。
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