Are Competence Beliefs or Value Beliefs More Important for STEM Career Aspirations?—Longitudinal Mediation Analyses Based on Recent Modeling Approaches Show Different Results

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-751176
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.75117

Debatin, Tobias

; Stoeger, Heidrun

; Ziegler, Albert

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Abstract

There is a consensus in situated expectancy-value theory research that value beliefs better predict career aspirations and choices than competence beliefs and thus should be the main target of interventions aimed to motivate youth for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) careers. However, research on the longer-term causal effects of the two constructs and their indirect effects is ...