Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Luke McGuire, Channing Mathews, Adam J Hoffman, Fidelia Law, Angelina Joy, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Mark Winterbottom, Frances Balkwill, Grace Fields, Laurence Butler, Karen Burns, Marc Drews, Adam Rutland
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers need both motivation and interpersonal skills in STEM disciplines. The aims of the study were to identify clusters of adolescents who vary in math and science motivation and interpersonal skills and to explore what factors are related to membership in a high math and science motivation and interpersonal skills cluster. Participants included 467 adolescents (312 female; M age = 15.12 to SD = 1.71 year) recruited from out-of-school STEM programs in the US and UK...
September 2023: Youth & Society