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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; McGuire, Luke; Mathews, Channing; Hoffman, Adam J.; Law, Fidelia; Joy, Angelina; Hartstone-Rose, Adam; Winterbottom, Mark; Balkwill, Frances; Fields, Grace; Butler, Laurence; Burns, Karen; Drews, Marc; Rutland, Adam – Youth & Society, 2023
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers need both motivation and interpersonal skills in STEM disciplines. The aims of the study were to identify clusters of adolescents who vary in math and science motivation and interpersonal skills and to explore what factors are related to membership in a high math and science motivation and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Adolescents, Student Motivation, Interpersonal Competence
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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Cerda-Smith, Jacqueline; Joy, Angelina; Mathews, Channing; Ozturk, Emine – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Maintaining adolescents' engagement with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in and out of school may help ensure that adolescents are prepared to enter the STEM workforce. This study aims to extend prior work by documenting internal and external factors that matter for both STEM class engagement as well as engagement with STEM…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10, STEM Education
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Cerda-Smith, Jacqueline; Joy, Angelina; Mathews, Channing; Knox, Jerica; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn – Science Education, 2023
Racially minoritized groups are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) degree programs and careers, warranting the need to examine students' racialized experiences in K-12 settings that may influence their STEM persistence. In particular, the current study explored adolescent perceptions of school racial climate…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Careers, STEM Education, Student Interests
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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Boswell, Corey; Niehaus, Kate – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To investigate children's inclusion of language-outgroup members, English-speaking children (8-9 years and 10-11 years of age, N = 57) made inclusion decisions while playing a simulated ball-tossing game, Cyberball, and while evaluating hypothetical scenarios involving language-outgroup members who wanted to play with their group. In the Cyberball…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Vignettes, Group Membership, Play
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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline; Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Ingroup preferences when deciding who to include in 2 distinct intergroup contexts, gender and school affiliation, were investigated. Children and adolescents, in the 4th (9-10 years) and 8th (13-14 years) grades, chose between including someone in their group who shared their group norm (moral or conventional) or who shared their group membership…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Preferences, Context Effect
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Killen, Melanie; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
"Interpersonal" rejection and "intergroup" exclusion in childhood reflect different, but complementary, aspects of child development. Interpersonal rejection focuses on individual differences in personality traits, such as wariness and being fearful, to explain bully-victim relationships. In contrast, intergroup exclusion focuses on how in-group…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship