Interactive Support Effects on Career Agency and Occupational Engagement Among Young Adults

Abstract

Interactive support effects on career agency and occupational engagement among young adults Abstract:The PIC model by Gati and Asher describes three career decision making stages: pre-screening, in-depth exploration, and choice of career options. We consider the role that three different forms of support (general career support by parents, emotional/instrumental support, and informational support) may play for young adults in each of these three decision-making stages.The authors further propose that different forms of support may predict career agency and occupational engagement, which are important career decision precedents. In addition, we consider the role of personality traits and perceptions (decision-making window) on these two outcomes. Using an online survey sample (N = 281), we found that general career support was important for career agency and occupational engagement. However, it was the combination of higher general career support with either emotional/instrumental support or informational support that was found to lead to both greater career agency and higher occupational engagement. Personality also played a role: Greater proactivity also led to greater occupational engagement, even when there was little urgency for participants to make decisions (window of decision-making was wide open and not restricted). In practical terms, the findings suggest that the learning required in each of the three PIC processes (pre-screening, in-depth exploration, choice of career options may benefit when the learner has access to the three support measures.

Influence of Proactive Personality on Career Self‐Efficacy

“…The proactive personality trait plays an important role in both career-and organization-related constructs . Previous studies (Cooper-Thomas, Paterson, Stadler, & Saks, 2014;Jenkins & Jeske, 2015) found that proactive personality is positively associated with new employees' learning and work engagement . Seibert, Crant, and Kraimer (1999) found that proactive personality partially predicted employees' objective and subjective career successes .…”

Occupational engagement scale-student: Psychometric properties in Turkish university students

“…This validity is supported by Guardado (2019) who argued that engaging in occupational behaviors helps individuals have a clearer understanding of their future work and feel more confident when making career-related decisions. However, Jenkins and Jeske (2017) revealed that although the two variables had a negative relationship, career indecisiveness was not a significant predictor of occupational engagement. Consequently, the results support that the OES-S has discriminant scale validity in the Turkish form.…”

Gender and Socioeconomic Status as Factors of Individual Differences in Pre-University Students’ Decision-Making for Careers, with a Focus on Family Influence and Psychosocial Factors

“…Parents do not have a direct influence on their children regarding what exactly to study at university, but they do have an influence on the enhancement of self-confidence and self-efficacy in the process [10,11,19], strengthening self-esteem, and the importance of "me" through success [63], as evidenced by our conclusion that the decision to take the PEvAU is influenced by families, and specifically parents. They influence career decision-making regardless of whether each individual goes through processes of both formal and informal learning, as well as self-directed learning, in the sense that they structure their own decision-making as they progress through their own journey of figuring out how to best make their own decision [64].…”

“…Thus, mothers have more influence on daughters [29,39], especially when compared to the influence that fathers have on their sons, although sons are more influenced by their father, and daughters by their mothers. This rule does not deny the existence of studies where this relationship between parents and children is not confirmed [64]. From psychosocial factors that influence student decision-making, adolescents are indecisive, which in some cases makes parents lead their children to choosing a career that does not fit their personality [9][10][11][12].…”