Sex differences in self-perceived employability and self-motivated strategies for learning in Polish first-year students.

ABSTRACT: Self-perceived employability (SPE) is defined as the ability to attain sustainable employment appropriate to one's qualification level (Rothwell 2008) and perceived as a crucial factor in university graduates' career development. Meanwhile, University students are mainly assessed through the lens of academic achievement, which depend, inter alia, on the self-motivated strategies for learning (MSL). Firstly, we tested hypothesised sex differences in SPE's and MSL's factors in a group of the first-year university students (n = 600) in a Central European context. Our analyses revealed that female students, despite their higher results in MSL's factors (self-regulation, learning strategies, intrinsic values, self-efficacy) presented lower internal SPE than male students. Secondly, we explored

SUBMITTER: Fudali-Czyz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9106146 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature