IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/jedpjl/v4y2014i1p238.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Familial and Economic Influences on the Gender-Related Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Rural Adolescents

Author

Listed:
  • Judith L. Meece
  • Karyl Askew
  • Charlotte Agger
  • Bryan Hutchins
  • Soo-yong Byun

Abstract

Economic, occupational, and social shifts in rural economies have influenced nuanced changes in the educationaland occupational aspirations of rural adolescent women and men. However, there is limited contemporaryresearch that examines the aspirations of rural adolescents at the beginning of the 21st century. Drawing on asample of 8,756 rural adolescents in the United States, we examine how familial, geographic, and economicvariables influence gender-related differences in educational and occupational aspirations. Findings revealedsignificant gender differences, favoring girls, in youth’s educational aspirations, occupational aspirations, andaspirations for nontraditional careers. Results highlight the importance of contextual variables such as parentalexpectations, family income, and motivation variables in predicting gender-related aspirations of rural youth.

Suggested Citation

  • Judith L. Meece & Karyl Askew & Charlotte Agger & Bryan Hutchins & Soo-yong Byun, 2014. "Familial and Economic Influences on the Gender-Related Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Rural Adolescents," Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(1), pages 238-238, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:jedpjl:v:4:y:2014:i:1:p:238
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jedp/article/download/35198/20395
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jedp/article/view/35198
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. repec:ucp:bkecon:9780226202662 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Soo-yong Byun & Judith L. Meece & Charlotte A. Agger, 2017. "Predictors of College Attendance Patterns of Rural Youth," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 58(8), pages 817-842, December.
    2. Yonat Ivzori & Dalia Sachs & Shunit Reiter & Naomi Schreuer, 2020. "Transition to Employment Program (SUPER) for Youth at Risk: A Conceptual and Practical Model," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(11), pages 1-16, May.
    3. Lori M. Hunter & Catherine B. Talbot & Dylan Shane Connor & Miriam Counterman & Johannes H. Uhl & Myron P. Gutmann & Stefan Leyk, 2020. "Change in U.S. Small Town Community Capitals, 1980–2010," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 39(5), pages 913-940, October.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:jedpjl:v:4:y:2014:i:1:p:238. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.