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Influential Factors on Choice of Home Economics as a Major for Black and White Women Attending Land-Grant Colleges in the Southern Region

Betty L. Stout

School of Consumer Science and Allied Professions, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC 29733

Anne L. Huber

School of Consumer Science and Allied Professions, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC 29733

Treva M. Babcock

School of Consumer Science and Allied Professions, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC 29733

Thomas A. Lyson

Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631

Victoria R. LeNoir

Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631

Leola Adams

South Carolina State College, Orangeburg 29115

The relative importance of selected significant other, social origin, and curricular-related educational and work experience variables on choice of major was determined. A stepwise form of discriminant analysis was used to distinguish black women (N = 1198) majoring in home economics at predominantly black land-grant colleges from white women (N = 1005) majoring in home economics at predominantly white institutions in the Southern region. The most important discriminating social origin variables were parents' income, father's occupa tion, and father's political preference. Mothers were the most important significant other variable to differentiate the two groups. For the curriculum-related variables, prior home economics experience, high school course, and participation in Future Homemakers of America manifested some discriminating power between the two groups. The results of the combined discriminant analysis for all variables indicated that social origin variables, i.e., father's education and parents' income, were the most important variables separating the two populations. The most important curriculum-related experience and significant other factors to differentiate the two groups were high school home economics course and high school counselor, respectively. Each of the variables was more important for black home economics students' choices of a major than for their white counterparts.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, 211-220 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8100900305
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