Contextual Factors and Psychological Mechanisms that Support or Disrupt Biomedical Career Pathways

支持或破坏生物医学职业道路的背景因素和心理机制

• 批准号: 10620163
• 负责人: Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia
• 金额: $ 40.84万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10620163
• 关键词: Address; Belief; Career Choice; Characteristics; Data Collection; Development; Female; First Generation College Students; Future Teacher; Gender; Generations; Grant; Individual; Institution; Mediating; Methods; Michigan; Minority; Minority-Serving Institution; Motivation; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Phase; Privatization; Research; Resource Allocation; STEM field; Sampling; Science; Site; Students; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Universities; Woman; career; cohort; college; contextual factors; curriculum enhancement; design; evidence base; experience; flexibility; improved; insight; interest; lens; programs; psychologic; recruit; student participation

Project Summary Many students enter college with an interest in studying science, but ultimately pursue other majors. Others graduate with a science major, but fail to enter or remain in the biomedical workforce. The many pathways out of science contribute to shortages in the biomedical workforce, particularly among women, underrepresented minorities (URMs), and first-generation (FG) college students. What is often missing in the study of persistence in biomedical fields is a consideration of the psychological mechanisms involved in persistence and an understanding of how to design experiences or institutional supports around such mechanisms. My research program addresses this gap by examining persistence in the biomedical fields using a psychological lens, with a focus on motivational trajectories and contextual supports. Over the next 5 years, I will focus on two key open questions: (1) What developmental patterns of motivational beliefs are adaptive for persistence in biomedical career pathways and do adaptive patterns vary across individuals with different characteristics (e.g., URM, FG, Gender)?, and (2) How can we improve contextual supports during college, focusing on motivational beliefs as a mediating mechanism, in order to retain more individuals on biomedical career pathways, especially those from underrepresented groups? This MIRA application aims to leverage and extend my extensive multi-site, multi-method longitudinal research by continuing quantitative and qualitative longitudinal data collection as research participants reach the next phases in their career pathways (immediately after college and >5 years after college) from two unique university samples: (1) large, land-grant public university (Michigan State University, N = 1735; 57% Female; 11% URM; 12% FG) and (2) elite, private university (Duke, N = 2546; 54% Female; 19% URM; 9% FG). Additionally, to extend the generalizability of these findings to a third unique university context and to flexibly pursue research questions based on findings from the original cohorts, data collection will be extended to Old Dominion University, a public, minority-serving institution (41% URM, 28% FG). Finally, an alternative approach for addressing persistence in biomedical fields will be pursued, namely examining how training future faculty to support student motivation and engagement in the context of enriched curricular opportunities relates to their later approaches to supporting student motivation and engagement. IMPACT: This on-going research program will provide key insights into the types of contextual supports and psychological mechanisms that are needed to encourage persistence in biomedical science careers, especially among women, URMs, and FGs.

项目摘要 许多学生进入有兴趣学习科学的大学，但最终追求其他 专业。其他人毕业于科学专业，但无法进入或留在生物医学中 劳动力。科学的许多途径有助于生物医学的短缺 劳动力，尤其是在妇女中，代表性不足的少数民族（URM）和第一代 （FG）大学生。生物医学领域持久性研究中通常缺少的是一个 考虑持续涉及的心理机制和对 如何设计经验或机构支持此类机制。我的研究 程序通过使用一个 心理视角，重点是动机轨迹和上下文支持。 在接下来的5年中，我将重点关注两个关键的开放问题：（1）哪些发展模式 动机信仰的适应性在生物医学职业道路上的持久性并做 自适应模式在具有不同特征的个体之间各不相同（例如，URM，FG， 性别）？和（2）我们如何在大学期间改善上下文支持，重点关注 励志信念是一种中介机制，以保留更多的生物医学个人 职业途径，尤其是来自代表性不足的团体的途径？这个Mira应用程序的目的 利用并扩展了我广泛的多站点多方法纵向研究 随着研究参与者达到的持续定量和定性纵向数据收集 其职业道路上的下一个阶段（大学毕业后，大学毕业后> 5年） 来自两个独特的大学样本：（1）大型土地授予公立大学（密歇根州立大学 大学，n = 1735; 57％的女性； 11％URM； 12％FG）和（2）精英，私立大学（杜克大学， n = 2546; 54％的女性； 19％URM； 9％FG）。此外，为了扩展这些的推广性 第三个独特的大学背景的调查结果，并根据 来自原始同伙的发现，数据收集将扩展到Old Dominion University， 公共，少数民族服务机构（URM 41％，FG 28％）。最后，是另一种方法 将追求生物医学领域的持久性，即研究如何培训 在丰富的课程的背景下，未来的教师支持学生的动力和参与 机会与他们后来的支持学生动机和 订婚。影响：该持续的研究计划将为类型提供关键的见解 需要鼓励的背景支持和心理机制 生物医学科学职业的持久性，尤其是在女性，URM和FG中。