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Title
The effectiveness of an internet-based career development program: the impact of matching animated agent ethnic appearance
Description
The current study is a follow up to a previous evaluation of Believe It!, an internet-based career development program for adolescent girls. This study attempted to extend the program's effectiveness by manipulating animated agent appearance based on literature suggesting that agent appearance has implications for human-computer program interface. Participants included 52 Latinas (ages 11 to 14) randomly assigned to view one of two versions of the revised career program. Each version contained identical content but included animated agents designed to represent different ethnicities. Pre and post-treatment scores for three career belief measures and an occupational stereotype measure were analyzed using a MANCOVA. The results were not significant and further analyses revealed that the results were confounded by complications with the perceived ethnicity of the animated agents. Despite a lack of significance the results provide enriching information about Latina adolescent perception of ethnicity.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Hardy, Amanda (Author)
- Horan, John (Thesis advisor)
- Atkinson, Robert (Committee member)
- Homer, Judith (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Counseling psychology
- Career Development
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Implications of ethnic appearance
- Latina
- Hispanic American teenage girls--Vocational guidance.
- Hispanic American teenage girls
- Hispanic American teenage girls--Psychology.
- Hispanic American teenage girls
- Mexican American teenage girls--Vocational guidance.
- Mexican American teenage girls
- Mexican American teenage girls--Psychology.
- Mexican American teenage girls
Resource Type
Extent
vii, 53 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14326
Statement of Responsibility
by Amanda Hardy
Description Source
Viewed on Sept. 24, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-34)
Field of study: Counseling psychology
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