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Gender and the social cure in undergraduate physics students : physics identity, self-efficacy, belonging, and wellbeing
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dc.contributor.author | Bottomley, Ewan | |
dc.contributor.author | Wild, Vivienne | |
dc.contributor.author | Miles, Paula Jean | |
dc.contributor.author | Mavor, Ken | |
dc.contributor.author | Kohnle, Antje | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-27T10:30:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-27T10:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-07-30 | |
dc.identifier | 289353319 | |
dc.identifier | fe258883-f7dc-4929-be78-922f1ba2a721 | |
dc.identifier | 85164147554 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bottomley , E , Wild , V , Miles , P J , Mavor , K & Kohnle , A 2023 , ' Gender and the social cure in undergraduate physics students : physics identity, self-efficacy, belonging, and wellbeing ' , International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-023-10406-6 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1571-0068 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-6220-7774/work/138326685 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-2638-4826/work/138326765 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3160-3889/work/138327273 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/28047 | |
dc.description.abstract | The social cure is the concept that strong connections and social bonds are good for wellbeing and physical health. Having strong social support makes hardship easier to cope with. We hypothesize that we could apply the relationship to educational contexts, with a sense of belonging as part of the cohort or community helping students to cope with educational hurdles, resulting in greater wellbeing. We examined the case of women in physics. Previous research has suggested that women in physics classes report a lesser sense of belonging than men. We aimed to replicate this finding and examine how a sense of belonging relates to wellbeing. We surveyed 310 physics students (205 men, 105 women) from a small research-intensive university in the UK. The survey measured students’ physics identity, sense of belonging to the physics community, self-efficacy (belief in ability to complete physics-based tasks), and general wellbeing. We found that women and men reported similar levels of belonging and wellbeing, although women reported less physics identity and self- efficacy. Self-efficacy explained a significant fraction of the variance in wellbeing for both men and women. Additionally, belonging explained variance in wellbeing over and above self-efficacy and physics identity for men, but not for women. These results indicate that for men there is a stronger association between belonging and wellbeing, compared to women, but that it does not result in women having an over- all lower sense of wellbeing. | |
dc.format.extent | 15 | |
dc.format.extent | 781217 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education | en |
dc.subject | Belonging | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Physics identity | en |
dc.subject | Social cure | en |
dc.subject | Wellbeing | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | LB2300 Higher Education | en |
dc.subject | E-DAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | LB2300 | en |
dc.title | Gender and the social cure in undergraduate physics students : physics identity, self-efficacy, belonging, and wellbeing | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Higher Education Research | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Equality, Diversity & Inclusion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10763-023-10406-6 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://rdcu.be/dgooD | en |
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