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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2007.27.7.583

Analysis of Social Factors Affecting Gender Differences in Science-Related Attitudes  

Ha, Min-Su (Korea National University of Education)
Cha, Hee-Young (Korea National University of Education)
Kim, Su-Won (Korea National University of Education)
Lee, Kyung-Hwa (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.27, no.7, 2007 , pp. 583-591 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated gender differences in science-related attitude and to analyze association patterns among social factors affecting the differences. The relationships between student's science-related attitude and four variables - schools, teachers, friends and parents influencing the attitude were analysed. The questionnaire, which identifies whether the four variables influence students' science-related attitudes, were specially constructed and simultaneously administered with test of science-related attitudes (TOSRA) to 603 subjects: junior high, and high school students. Both boys and girls were not significantly different at TOSRA scores; however, by multiple regression analysis, the boys' TOSRA scores were influenced by the variable of parents and the girls' scores were influenced by teachers and friends. Social factors evoking gender differences on science-related attitude do not influence equally at everyday life of boys and girls. As the gender differences in science-related attitude decrease, perceptual changes of parents and teachers, the two most influential factors to make the differences should be important to drag females in science-related work as a desired occupation for women.
Keywords
science-related attitude; gender difference; TOSRA; social factors;
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