Unlocking STEM Identities Through Family Conversations About Topics in and Beyond STEM: The Contributions of Family Communication Patterns
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| Udgivet i: | Behavioral Sciences vol. 15, no. 2 (2025), p. 106 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Dou, Remy |u STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA; <email>nvilla@fiu.edu</email> | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Unlocking STEM Identities Through Family Conversations About Topics in and Beyond STEM: The Contributions of Family Communication Patterns | |
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| 520 | 3 | |a Research shows that family conversations about STEM topics positively influence children’s STEM identity development. This study expands on these findings by exploring how family conversations beyond STEM content contribute to this development. Specifically, we focus on how non-academic forms of family support—as described by students who face systemic racial discrimination in STEM—shape these conversations. In this way, we extend existing work by exploring the extent to which families’ dispositions to talk about a wide range of topics—not just in STEM—might further support youth identification with STEM fields. Using Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to guide our analysis, we examined data from a survey of first-year college students (n = 1134) attending Minority-Serving Institutions and public universities in the United States. The survey asked students to reflect on their childhood conversations and their current sense of identity in STEM. Using structural equation modeling, we found that family disposition to engage in conversations about a broad range of topics was linked to more frequent STEM-related conversations during childhood and, in turn, greater identification as a “STEM person” in college. These findings highlight the complex ways that family communication patterns can support construction of an individual’s sense of themselves as a STEM person in later years. By interpreting these findings using FCPT, we highlight the nature of family communication patterns that can contribute to STEM identity formation. | |
| 653 | |a Identity formation | ||
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| 653 | |a Verbal communication | ||
| 653 | |a College students | ||
| 653 | |a Childhood | ||
| 653 | |a Structural equation modeling | ||
| 653 | |a Family support | ||
| 653 | |a Child development | ||
| 653 | |a Families & family life | ||
| 653 | |a STEM education | ||
| 653 | |a Racial discrimination | ||
| 653 | |a Engineering | ||
| 653 | |a Mathematics | ||
| 653 | |a Children & youth | ||
| 653 | |a Communication | ||
| 653 | |a Historically Black Colleges & Universities | ||
| 653 | |a Caregivers | ||
| 653 | |a Learning | ||
| 653 | |a Ethnic identity | ||
| 653 | |a Interpersonal communication | ||
| 653 | |a Polls & surveys | ||
| 653 | |a Topics | ||
| 653 | |a Racism | ||
| 653 | |a Conversation | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Villa, Nicole |u STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA; <email>nvilla@fiu.edu</email> | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Cian, Heidi |u Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, Augusta, ME 04330, USA; <email>hcian@mmsa.org</email> | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Sunbury, Susan |u Department of Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; <email>ssunbury@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (S.S.); <email>psadler@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (P.M.S.); <email>gsonnert@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (G.S.) | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Sadler, Philip M |u Department of Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; <email>ssunbury@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (S.S.); <email>psadler@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (P.M.S.); <email>gsonnert@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (G.S.) | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Sonnert, Gerhard |u Department of Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; <email>ssunbury@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (S.S.); <email>psadler@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (P.M.S.); <email>gsonnert@cfa.harvard.edu</email> (G.S.) | |
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