The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields

Purpose– Despite continuing under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the literature still falls short on identifying and explaining the factors that could contribute to women’s persistence and commitment. The purpose of this research is to iden...

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Main Author: Blaique, Lama (author)
Other Authors: H. Pinnington, Ashly (author), Al-Malkawi, Husam-Aldin (author), Aldabbas, Hazem (author)
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/3698
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2026-01-22T09:50:33Z
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description Purpose– Despite continuing under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the literature still falls short on identifying and explaining the factors that could contribute to women’s persistence and commitment. The purpose of this research is to identify cognitive and behavioral factors that will support the occupational commitment of women in STEM. Design/methodology/approach– Quantitative analysis is based on a questionnaire survey of 375 women workinginSTEMintheMiddleEastregion.Multipleregressionandbootstrappingmethodswereemployedin the analysis of the data. Findings– The results support the following hypotheses: personal skills development has a positive impact on affective occupational commitment and coping self-efficacy, and coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between personal skills development and affective occupational commitment. Originality/value– Thisstudyadds insightson the dynamic approachesadoptedby womeninSTEMfields to overcome occupational career challenges by testing several internal drivers, coping self-efficacy and personal learning.
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spelling The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfieldsBlaique, LamaH. Pinnington, AshlyAl-Malkawi, Husam-AldinAldabbas, HazemPurpose– Despite continuing under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the literature still falls short on identifying and explaining the factors that could contribute to women’s persistence and commitment. The purpose of this research is to identify cognitive and behavioral factors that will support the occupational commitment of women in STEM. Design/methodology/approach– Quantitative analysis is based on a questionnaire survey of 375 women workinginSTEMintheMiddleEastregion.Multipleregressionandbootstrappingmethodswereemployedin the analysis of the data. Findings– The results support the following hypotheses: personal skills development has a positive impact on affective occupational commitment and coping self-efficacy, and coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between personal skills development and affective occupational commitment. Originality/value– Thisstudyadds insightson the dynamic approachesadoptedby womeninSTEMfields to overcome occupational career challenges by testing several internal drivers, coping self-efficacy and personal learning.2026-01-22T09:50:33Z2021-10-10Articlehttps://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/3698en_USoai:bspace.buid.ac.ae:1234/36982026-01-29T17:05:11Z
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title The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
title_full The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
title_fullStr The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
title_full_unstemmed The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
title_short The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
title_sort The influence of personal skills development and coping self efficacy on the affective occupational commitment of womenin STEMfields
url https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/3698