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The relationship between race and students' identified career role models and perceived role model influence.

From: Career Development Quarterly  |  Date: 3/1/2004  |  Author: Karunanayake, Danesh; Nauta, Margaret M.

The authors examined whether college students' race was related to the modal race of their identified career role models, the number of identified career role models, and their perceived influence from such models. Consistent with A. Bandura's (1977, 1986) social learning theory, students tended to have role models whose race was the same as their own, and this finding held among career role models who were not members of students' families. Caucasian and racial minority students did ...

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