TABLE 4:

Descriptive table for engineering professional identification and affinities toward engineering professional practices

Variable	Pooled (n = 2,256)	Male (n = 1,365)	Female (n = 891)	Effect Size	Sig.
Engineering professional identity (EPI)	5.05 (1.26)	5.17 (1.28)	4.87 (1.21)	0.24	*
Project management	4.26 (0.59)	4.22 (0.59)	4.32 (0.58)	−0.17	*
Framing and solving problems	4.50 (0.47)	4.48 (0.47)	4.53 (0.46)	−0.12	*
Collaboration	4.08 (0.59)	4.07 (0.60)	4.08 (0.58)	−0.02	n.s.
Analysis	4.03 (0.75)	4.07 (0.60)	3.96 (0.79)	0.15	*
Design	4.12 (0.63)	4.15 (0.61)	4.08 (0.66)	0.12	*
Tinkering	3.96 (0.88)	4.07 (0.86)	3.80 (0.90)	0.31	*

Significance calculated using a two-tailed t-test. Adjusted threshold for pairwise comparisons using a Bonferroni correction: *p < 0.007.

n.s. = not significant.

Note: EPI is on a scale of 1 to 8. All other variables are on a scale of 1 to 5.