A Discussion on the Choice of Sex-Atypical Career–An Example of Maritime Majors College Female / 非傳統性別科系選擇之探討–以海事類科系女大專生為例

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 100 / The purpose of this study is to explore the associations among sex culture belief, social information, social expectations, and choice of sex-atypical career. Students from Turbine and Marine majors were invited to join this study. Research procedures including focus group interview for formulating related proposition and questionnaire survey was then cunducted to verify hypothesis.

This study sampled 474 available respondents which cocsist of 357 male and 117 female college students. All the respondents were freshman and sophomore from two marine-oriented institutes located in north of Taiwan. Data wrer analyzed and verified by Regression Analysis.
Main findings are as following:

1.Sex culture belief of the college female students is significantly negative related to the choice of sex-atypical major.
2.Sex culture belief of the college male students is significantly positive related to the choice of sex-atypical major.
3.Social information from professional referents plays critical role in determining the female students’ choice of sex-atypical major.
4.Social information from benchmarking referents has significant effect on male students’ choice of sex-atypical major.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/100NTOU5301051
Date January 2012
CreatorsHsin-Hung Lin, 林信宏
ContributorsKung-Don Ye, 余坤東
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format98

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