Social cognitive predictors of academic interests and goals in engineering: Utility for women and students at historically black universities

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 84-92

  Lent, Robert W ^a   Sheu, Hung Bin ^a   Schmidt, Janet ^a   Brenner, Bradley R ^a   Wilkins, Gregory ^b,f   Brown, Steven D ^c   Gloster, Clay S ^d,e   Schmidt, Linda C ^a,g   Lyons, Heather ^a   Treistman, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Howard University   (United States)

^f Center of Excellence for Tactical and Advanced Communications Technologies   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREER; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; ENGINEERING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PREDICTION; RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 19944433207     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.1.84     Document Type: Article

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