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Supports of and Barriers to Pursuing a Natural Resource Degree and Career: Perspectives of Culturally Diverse Young Adults.

机译：追求自然资源学位和职业的支持和障碍：文化多元的年轻人的观点。

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Federal natural resource agencies are facing a human resource crisis. Many natural resource professionals are reaching retirement and attracting young adults to fill vacancies may prove difficult. Although currently on the rise from a recent fall, enrollment in natural resource degree programs has not increased overall in the past three decades, which has resulted in a small and possibly shrinking pool of applicants for natural resource positions. In addition, increasingly young adults in the recruitment pool depart from the traditional background of current natural resource professionals (rural-raised, fisheries/wildlife/biology-educated, angler/hunter, white male) and agency workplace culture has not changed to match this new recruitment pool.;To recruit and retain more young adults and underrepresented groups in the natural resource field, more knowledge must be gained about the specific variables that influence the choice of natural resource majors and careers. Therefore, this study aims to examine the supports and barriers that influence the pursuit of a natural resource degree and career through the lens of the Social Cognitive Career Theory.;Specifically, this study seeks to answer three main research questions (1) What supports and barriers influence natural resource major choice?, (2) What supports and barriers influence natural resource career choice?, and (3) How do perceived supports and barriers regarding choice of the natural resource field differ between natural resource majors and recent hires?;The findings of the research are presented in the form of three articles for peer-reviewed journals. The first article is based on twenty-two interviews with recent hires with the Fish and Wildlife Service. The second is based on twenty-two interviews with undergraduate natural resource majors at West Virginia University and Alabama A&M; University. The final article compares the data from interviews with both recent hires and undergraduates.;By applying the Social Cognitive Career Theory, the first article highlights the supports and barriers that influence the natural resource career path of culturally diverse recent hires. Data revealed that young adults from underrepresented groups perceived unique and more numerous barriers and supports than white males. The second article emphasizes the supports and barriers that influence the choice of and persistence in a natural resource major. Interviews demonstrated that undergraduates from non-traditional backgrounds experienced increased barriers when compared to rural-raised, hunters/anglers in the major. The third article comparing the barriers faced by recent hires and undergraduates emphasizes the similarities between the two groups. The most notable difference between the two groups was that undergraduates experienced increased barriers because of non-traditional backgrounds, whereas recent hires experienced increased barriers because of ethnicity/race.;Based on results from each article, suggestions are made to improve recruitment and retention of young adults and underrepresented groups in the natural resource field. Furthermore, the successful application of the Social Cognitive Career Theory suggests its potential for improving future research on natural resource career choice.
机译：联邦自然资源机构正面临着人力资源危机。许多自然资源专业人员即将退休，吸引年轻人填补空缺可能很困难。尽管目前从最近的秋天开始有所增加，但自然资源学位课程的入学人数在过去的三十年中总体上没有增加，这导致自然资源职位申请者的人数可能减少，甚至可能有所减少。此外，越来越多的年轻人从现有自然资源专业人员的传统背景出发（农村养育，渔业/野生动物/生物教育，垂钓者/猎人，白人男性），并且代理商工作场所的文化并未改变以适应这种情况要招募和留住更多自然资源领域的年轻人和代表性不足的群体，必须获得更多有关影响自然资源专业和职业选择的特定变量的知识。因此，本研究旨在通过社会认知职业理论的视角来考察影响自然资源学位和职业追求的支持和障碍。;具体而言，本研究旨在回答三个主要的研究问题（1）支持和阻碍什么？障碍影响自然资源专业选择？，（2）哪些支持和障碍影响自然资源职业选择？，以及（3）自然资源专业和新聘人员之间关于自然资源领域选择的感知支持和障碍有何不同？研究结果以三篇文章的形式呈现给同行评审期刊。第一篇文章基于对鱼类和野生动物服务局新近雇员的22次采访。第二个是基于对西弗吉尼亚大学和阿拉巴马州A＆M的自然资源专业本科生的22次采访；大学。最后一篇文章比较了新近招聘者和大学生的访谈数据。通过运用社会认知职业理论，第一篇文章重点介绍了影响不同文化背景的新雇佣者自然资源职业道路的支持和障碍。数据显示，来自代表性不足人群的年轻人比白人男性感觉独特和更多的障碍和支持。第二篇文章强调影响自然资源专业选择和坚持的支持和障碍。访谈表明，与农村地区培养的专业猎人/钓鱼者相比，来自非传统背景的本科生的障碍增加了。第三篇文章比较了新入职者和大学生面临的障碍，强调了这两个群体之间的相似之处。两组之间最显着的差异是，由于非传统背景，大学生的壁垒增加，而由于种族/种族，新入职的员工壁垒增加;;基于每篇文章的结果，提出了改善招生和保留率的建议自然资源领域的年轻人和代表性不足的群体。此外，社会认知职业理论的成功应用表明它有潜力改善未来对自然资源职业选择的研究。

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    Balcarczyk, Kelly.;

  • 作者单位

    West Virginia University.;

  • 授予单位 West Virginia University.;
  • 学科 Vocational education.;Natural resource management.;Educational psychology.;Social psychology.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 117 p.
  • 总页数 117
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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