An Analysis of Factors Influencing Chinese University Students’ Major Choice from the Perspective of Gender Differences
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Título: | An Analysis of Factors Influencing Chinese University Students’ Major Choice from the Perspective of Gender Differences |
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Autor/es: | Xu, Chang | Xiang, Futao | Duan, Ruiqi | Miralles-Cardona, Cristina | Huo, Xinxin | Xu, Junwei |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Diversidad, Educación y Género (DEG) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud |
Palabras clave: | Broad discipline enrollment system | Major choices | Undergraduate | Gender differences | Finance and economics students | China |
Fecha de publicación: | 21-sep-2023 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Xu C, Xiang F, Duan R, Miralles-Cardona C, Huo X, Xu J. An Analysis of Factors Influencing Chinese University Students’ Major Choice from the Perspective of Gender Differences. Sustainability. 2023; 15(18):14037. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151814037 |
Resumen: | Higher education attainment is a focus of gender differences research. However, little is known about differences in university students’ major choices at the same level of higher education in China’s education hierarchy. Based on a web survey of 1164 undergraduate students in China’s broad enrollment context, this study uses Wenjuanxing to collect information by posting questionnaires on social media platforms and analyzes the impact of gender differences on the major choices of finance and economics undergraduates by using the Linear Discriminant Model (LDM). Moreover, this study explores the differential impact of income level, urban–rural settings, and regional differences on university students’ major choices. This study finds that female students are approximately 2.62 times more likely than male students to choose applied majors (such as accounting, financial management, auditing, international business, and so on), a gap that is more pronounced in high-income families and Eastern regions. In addition, in rural areas, female students have a higher probability of choosing applied majors than male students. These findings indicate that in China’s broad discipline enrollment model, gender differences still significantly affect students’ major choices, and female students are more likely to enter applied majors than their male counterparts. |
Patrocinador/es: | Anhui University of Finance and Economics “Special Teaching and Research Project of Ideological and Political Courses (Key Project)” (Project No.: ACSZJYZD2022002). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/137666 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su151814037 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su151814037 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - DEG - Artículos de Revistas |
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