Sex differences in motivation, self-concept, career aspiration, and career choice: Implications for cognitive development.

By Allan Wigfield, Ann Battle, Lisa B. Keller, Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2002

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An Investigation of Factors Affecting Gender Differences in Standardized Math Performance: Results from U.S. and Hong Kong 15 Year Olds (2009, background): “However, during secondary school, boys tend to be more interested in learning math than girls, and this difference tends to enlarge by adolescence (Wigfield et al., 2002).”
The Relations Among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics (2016, background): “However, these findings vary across the different aspects of motivation (Wigfield et al. 2002).”
Prior mathematics achievement, cognitive appraisals and anxiety as predictors of Finnish students’ later mathematics performance and career orientation (2010, background): “Because academic emotions are considered to predict well future career choices (Wigfield et al., 2002), we thought that the amount of experienced anxiety would predict career orientation.”