Parental Divorce, Family Functioning, and Vocational Identity of College Students

Johnson, Paula C; Buboltz, Walter C.; Nichols, Cassandra N.

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“…Some studies have concentrated on objective variables such as birth order and family system on various career-related variables (e.g., Bradley & Mims, 1992;Leong, Hartung, Goh, & Gaylor, 2001). Other scholars have extended the objective variables into more abstract psychological concepts such as family cohesion (Johnson, Buboltz, & Nichols, 1999), psychological separation and parental attachment (Blustein, Walbridge, Friedlander, & Palladino, 1991), and parental acceptance and encouragement of independence (Guerra & Braungart-Rieker, 1999). Based on these earlier investigations, later studies have concentrated on more abstract concepts of family environment and found supports for the impact of family environment on young adults' career-related variables (e.g., Hargrove, Creagh, & Burgess, 2002;Hargrove, Inman, & Crane, 2005;Lee, Choe, Kim, & Ngo, 2000;Ma & Yeh, 2005;Moos & Moos, 1986;Whiston, 1996).…”

Section: Familial Influences On Career-related Variablesmentioning

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An exploratory study on the relationship between parents’ career interests and the career interests of young adults

Wong

Peng

2011

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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In this study, we attempt to investigate the potential effects of parents' career interests on young adults' career interests. Using a sample of 113 freshmen in Hong Kong, results indicated that after controlling for personality, gender, general mental abilities and emotional intelligence, some of the parents' career interests were still related to the young adults' respective career interests. For some types of interests, the extent of influences is found to be contingent on the gender of the respondents. Implications are discussed.Résumé. Une étude exploratoire sur le lien entre les intérêts de carrière des parents et les intérêts de carrière des jeunes adultes. Dans cette étude, nous avons tenté d'investiguer les effets potentiels des intérêts de carrière des parents sur les intérêts de carrière des jeunes adultes. Sur la base d'un échantillon de 113 étudiants universitaire en première année à Hong Kong, les résultats indiquaient que certains intérêts de carrière des parents étaient en lien avec les intérêts de carrière respectifs des jeunes adultes, et ce, après avoir contrôlé pour la personnalité, le genre, les aptitudes mentales générales et l'intelligence émotionnelle. Pour certains types d'intérêts, l'étendue des influences varie selon le genre des répondants. Les implications sont discutées.Zusammenfassung. Eine explorative Studie über die Beziehung zwischen beruflichen Interessen von Eltern und den beruflichen Interessen von jungen Erwachsenen. In dieser Studie haben wir die möglichen Auswirkungen der beruflichen Interessen von Eltern auf die beruflichen Interessen von jungen Erwachsenen untersucht. Anhand einer Stichprobe von 113 Studienanfängern in Hong Kong deuten die Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass nach Kontrolle von Persönlichkeit, Geschlecht, allgemeinen geistigen Fähigkeiten und emotionaler Intelligenz, einige der beruflichen Interessen von Eltern immer noch mit den entsprechenden beruflichen Interessen der jungen Erwachsenen in Verbindung stehen. Für einige Arten von Interessen ist das Ausmaß der Einflüsse abhängig vom Geschlecht der Befragten. Implikationen werden diskutiert.Resumen. Un estudio exploratorio sobre la relación entre los intereses profesionales de los padres y los de los adultos jóvenes. En este estudio nos propusimos investigar el efecto que pueden tener los intereses profesionales de los padres sobre los intereses profesionales de sus hijos (adultos jóvenes). Utilizando una muestra de 113 estudiantes de primer curso de universidad en Hong Kong, los resultados indicaron que después de controlar las variables de personalidad, género, capacidades intelectuales generales e inteligencia emocional, algunos de los intereses de los padres aún se relacionaban con los intereses respectivos de los jóvenes adultos. Para algunos tipos de intereses, el grado de influencia depende del género de los informantes. Se discuten las implicaciones.

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Section: Familial Influences On Career-related Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory study on the relationship between parents’ career interests and the career interests of young adults

Wong

Peng

2011

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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“…The prominent role of family dynamics has even surfaced in a small number of career counseling and educational intervention guidelines in the career literature (e.g., Bradley, 1984;Bradley & Mims, 1992;Moon, Coleman, McCollum, Nelson, & Jensen-Scott, 1993;Morrow, 1995;Okiishi, 1987). Despite the widely held theoretical assumptions emphasizing the critical role of the family in career development theory and practice, and some recent research focusing on family variables (e.g., Blustein, Walbridge, Friedlander, & Palladino, 1991;Johnson, Buboltz, & Nichols, 1999), the exact nature of the family influence on career development patterns continues to be empirically elusive and inconsistent (Brachter, 1982;Eigen, Hartman, & Hartman, 1987;Guerra & Braungart-Rieker, 1999;Hargrove, Creagh, & Burgess, 2002;Johnson et al, 1999;Larson & Wilson, 1998;Lopez & Andrews, 1987;Zingaro, 1983).…”

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Family Interaction Patterns, Career Planning Attitudes, and Vocational Identity of High School Adolescents

2005

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The purpose of the current study was to examine how perceptions of family interaction patterns as defined along three dimensions of family environment (quality of family relationships, family goal-orientations, and degree of organization and control within the family system) predict vocational identity and career planning attitudes among male and female adolescents living at home. One hundred twenty three high school students completed measures of family environment, vocational identity, and career planning attitudes. Analyses revealed that the quality of family relationships (i.e., degree to which family members are encouraged to express feelings and problems) played a small, yet significant role in predicting career planning attitudes of adolescents.KEY WORDS: adolescents; family patterns; career planning; vocational identity.Career counselors and theorists have long acknowledged the role of the family context in the career development literature (e.g.

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“…Blinne and Johnston (1998) and Johnson et al (1999) reported no significant differences in vocational identity based on parents' marital status. Nonetheless, Berríos-Allison (2005) did find that participants who themselves had experienced early separation from their parents were less achieved in occupational identity.…”

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“…Penick and Jepsen (1992) found that family members' perception of family functioning significantly predicted participants' vocational identity. Similarly, Johnson et al (1999) and Song et al (2016) respectively reported that family functioning, cohesion, and expressiveness were related to vocational identity, with expressiveness being the most predictive, and that high functional family communication positively influenced occupational identity in achievement status. Nonetheless, Hartung et al (2002) found no association between vocational identity and perceived levels of cohesion and adaptability within the family, and Shin and Kelly (2013) found that family cohesion and expressiveness moderated the link between optimism and vocational identity for Korean but not American participants.…”

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Psychosocial Development Factors Associated with Occupational and Vocational Identity Between Infancy and Adolescence

Chávez

2016

Adolescent Res Rev

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The identification with an occupation is a challenge most adolescents face in their transition into adulthood. Psychosocial development theory suggests that adolescents' identification with an occupation develops across the lifespan, making youth work roles, choices, and behaviors products of their integrated psychosocial development experiences. This review examines the existing occupational and vocational identity literature to identify the associations with factors relevant to psychosocial development between infancy and adolescence, and integrates them to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how adolescents identify with an occupation. The review reveals that the factors important to healthy psychosocial development in each of Erikson's five preadult stages largely were predictive of occupational identity status in adolescence. Disagreement was present in the literature, with most of it centered on the role of complex outer and environmental factors. The review highlights gaps in the literature and prioritizes areas for future research based largely on a return to Erikson's intention of treating occupational identity as developmental. The review adds to the current debates and knowledge of youth development and of how adolescents identify with an occupation by providing an integration of the existing empirical evidence not just at the point of adolescence, but also across the entire pre-adult lifespan.

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Parental Divorce, Family Functioning, and Vocational Identity of College Students

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

An exploratory study on the relationship between parents’ career interests and the career interests of young adults

An exploratory study on the relationship between parents’ career interests and the career interests of young adults

Family Interaction Patterns, Career Planning Attitudes, and Vocational Identity of High School Adolescents

Psychosocial Development Factors Associated with Occupational and Vocational Identity Between Infancy and Adolescence

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