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How Do You Feel About STEM? Examining the Overlooked Role of Emotions for Career Aspirations

Sat, April 9, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 152 B

Session Type: Symposium

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Students’ career choice is a highly important educational outcome. The expectancy-value model (e.g., Wigfield & Eccles, 2000) offers a prominent theoretical framework for examining career choice, and although emotions are mentioned, they are relatively understudied concerning their impact on students’ career intentions and eventual occupations. Usually, emotions are considered (if at all) within the value component of the model (i.e., intrinsic or enjoyment value and cost). However, there is a wide range of discrete emotions that may be of importance and are deserving of empirical investigation. The present symposium combines recent research from the US, Canada, and Europe and aims at illuminating the role of various emotions for students’ career choice in STEM domains within the expectancy-value framework.

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