X Zheng, W Zhou, C Ni, C Wang - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022 - Springer

The influencing mechanism of research training on Chinese STEM Ph. D. students' career interests.

Stem career programs

Ni, Zheng

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Excerpt

Using 9277 records from the 2020 China Graduate Student Satisfaction Survey, we examined the relationship between STEM Ph. D. students' research training and their subsequent career interests. Based on the student involvement theory and social cognitive career theory, four dimensions of research training (quantitative involvement, qualitative involvement, and the advisors' instrumental and psychosocial mentoring) and a linking mechanism between research productivity and self-efficacy (a belief in one's ability to …