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Influence of Social Cognitive and Gender Variables on Technological Academic Interest among Spanish High-School Students: Testing Social Cognitive Career Theory
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Rodríguez, Carmen; Inda, Mercedes; Fernández, Carmen Mª – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2016
This study tested social cognitive career theory (SCCT) in the technological domain with 2,359 high-school students in Asturias (Spain). Path analyses were run to determine the influence of gender on the SCCT model and to explain the influence of personal (emotional state, gender-role attitudes), contextual (perceived social supports and…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Social Influences, Gender Differences, High School Students
Examining Engineering & Technology Students' Acceptance of Network Virtualization Technology Using the Technology Acceptance Model
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Yousif, Wael K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This causal and correlational study was designed to extend the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and to test its applicability to Valencia Community College (VCC) Engineering and Technology students as the target user group when investigating the factors influencing their decision to adopt and to utilize VMware as the target technology. In…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Intention
Social Learning Theory and The Dynamics of Interaction.
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Staddon, J. E. R. – Psychological Review, 1984
The author addresses and critiques the recent controversy between Bandura (1983) and Phillips and Orton (1983) over Bandura's recent article on modes of causation in social learning. The proper role of formal models in the analysis of social dynamics is also discussed. (Author/EGS)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Representing Personal Determinants in Causal Structures.
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Bandura, Albert – Psychological Review, 1984
Responds to Staddon's critique of the author's earlier article and addresses issues raised by Staddon's (1984) alternative models of causality. The author argues that it is not the formalizability of causal processes that is the issue but whether cognitive determinants of behavior are reducible to past stimulus inputs in causal structures.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Influences on the Sociometric Ratings of Mildly Handicapped Children: A Path Analysis.
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Morrison, Gale M.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The results of a path analysis revealed the following causal sequence or pathway of influence on the social status of educable mentally retarded children: from observed behavior and achievement, to teacher perceptions of these competencies, to student perceptions of the competencies, and finally, to social status of the handicapped students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation
Early Adolescent Temperament and Academic Competence: Tests of "Direct Effects" and Developmental Contextual Models.
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Talwar, Rachna; And Others – 1989
Temperament and objective and subjective measures of academic competence were interrelated in order to test two alternative models: (1) a direct effects model stressing intraorganismic, noncontextually mediated links; and (2) a developmental contextual model emphasizing social interactional processes between students and teachers. Data from the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Elementary School Students