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Show spiritually which I correlated with their majors to test for any significant correlation. After organizing and analyzing the data using the independent samples T-test, I found that there was no significant difference in the self-reported self-esteem and body satisfaction scores for female college students majoring in STEM v. social sciences/humanities/liberal arts. This indicates that perhaps there is no difference in the self-reported sense of self-worth between female college students who major in STEM v. social sciences/humanities/liberal arts. However, there were some surprising results regarding the perception of being welcomed and accepted; the female college students from the social sciences/humanities/liberal arts college felt less welcomed and accepted outside of their major at a trend level of p=0.06. These findings could be a result of the limited sample size and the unique faculty demographics in the Liberal Arts college with the faculty sex ratio being 50:50. Nevertheless, the positive correlation between the self-esteem and body satisfaction indicates that the research is aligned with other research in similar topics. Therefore, although my results were not numerically significant this time, it is a valid study. Further research needs to be carried out with more diverse majors and a bigger participant pool. |
