Exploring Negative Career Thoughts Between Stem-Declared And Stem-Interested Students

Keywords

career development; Career Thoughts Inventory; COMPASS; EXCEL; STEM education

Abstract

The shortage of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals in the United States leaves many available positions unfilled. Students beginning college with declared STEM majors often change majors in college, contributing to retention difficulties. Using the Career Thoughts Inventory (Sampson, Peterson, Lenz, Reardon, & Saunders, 1996a), the authors examined negative career thoughts between undergraduate STEM-declared students participating in a STEM retention project and STEM-interested students participating in a National Science Foundation–funded STEM recruitment and retention project. Results indicated significant differences between the 2 groups, with STEM-interested students reporting greater negative career thoughts.

Publication Date

12-1-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Employment Counseling

Volume

55

Issue

4

Number of Pages

166-175

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/joec.12096

Socpus ID

85057862049 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85057862049

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