Does the Stereotypicality of Mothers' Occupation Influence Children's Communal Occupational Aspirations and Communal Orientation?

ABSTRACT: Career development is a lifelong process that starts in infancy and is shaped by a number of different factors during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Even though career development is shaped through life, relatively little is known about the predictors of occupational aspirations in childhood. Therefore, in the present work we investigate how the stereotypicality of a mother's occupation (female-dominated/communal vs. non-female-dominated/agentic) influences her young child's communal occupational aspirations and communal orientation. We conducted two studies with young children. Study 1 included 72 mother-child dyads recruited from childcare centers in Northern Norway (children's age range: 4½-6 years). Study 2 included 106 mother-child dyads recruited from Norwegian elementary sch

SUBMITTER: Kvalo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9231506 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature