Several key factors have emerged from the literature contributing to the explanation of STEM participation (or lack of), including mathematics mindset, mathematics anxiety, mathematics identity, and mathematics self‐efficacy. Despite the research on the relations of these variables to career interest, few studies have integrated them and examined their intertwined relations in one model. The purpose of this study was to use a structural equation modeling approach to answer the central question: To what extent are the factors of mathematics mindset, mathematics anxiety, mathematics identity, and mathematics self‐efficacy related to each other and a STEM career choice? The results highlight a key finding that mathematics identity serves as a full mediator between mathematics mindset and STEM career interest as well as between mathematics anxiety and STEM career interest.

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数学心态，数学焦虑，数学认同和数学自我效能感与STEM职业选择的关系：一种结构方程建模方法

从文献中得出了一些有助于解释STEM参与（或缺乏）的关键因素，包括数学心态，数学焦虑，数学身份和数学自我效能感。尽管已经研究了这些变量与职业兴趣之间的关系，但很少有研究将它们整合在一起并在一个模型中研究了它们之间的相互联系。这项研究的目的是使用结构方程建模方法来回答以下核心问题：数学思维方式，数学焦虑，数学认同，以及彼此之间的数学自我效能感以及STEM的职业选择？结果突出表明了一个重要发现，即数学身份可以作为数学思维方式与STEM职业兴趣之间以及数学焦虑与STEM职业兴趣之间的全面中介。