Attracting adolescents to become doctors and nurses: differential importance of personal and environmental factors in 61 economies

Table 1 Constructs and indicators used in the research as linked to social cognitive career theory (SCCT)

Constructs	Indicators	Descriptions	Sources	Analyses
Distal contextual factors
National economy	GDP	GDP per capita	International Monetary Fund
	Health expenditure	Health expenditure per capita	World Health Organization	Residualized to reflect the amount on top of the amount predicted by GPD
Working conditions	Salary	Average daily salary for health and social workers (in standardized US dollar)	International Labour Organization	Residualized to discount GDP effects
	Working hour	Average daily working hours for health and social workers	International Labour Organization
	Safety	Average medical injuries per 10 000 health and social workers	International Labour Organization
	Professional density	Number of doctors/nurses per 10 000 population	World Health Organization
Proximal contextual factors
Societal evaluation	Value income	Percentage of people who value income most when choosing a career	World Value Survey
Cognitive-personal variables
Gender	Girl preference	High scores indicate girls’ (vs. boys’) greater preference for health career		Multilevel Logistic Regression
SES	High SES preference	High scores indicate high-SES (vs. low-SES) students’ preference for health career		Multilevel Logistic Regression
Ability	High ability preference	High scores indicate high-academic ability (vs. low-academic ability) students’ preference for health career		Multilevel Logistic Regression

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