Parental Support in Adolescents' Career Development: Parents' and Children's Perceptions

Abstract

Using social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, ), this study examined the role of parents' and children's perceptions of parental support in adolescents' career choices. A total of 94 Italian adolescents (30 boys, 64 girls) and both of their parents (N = 188) participated in the study. The authors tested a fully mediated model between mothers' and fathers' perceptions of support and career choice through the indirect effect of adolescents' perceptions of parental support and career self‐efficacy. Results provided support for the model. Specifically, both mothers' and fathers' perceptions of support predicted their adolescents' career choice through the mediating effect of the youths' perceptions of parental support and career self‐efficacy. These results have important implications for practice and underscore that parents need to be involved very early on in their children's vocational development.

Parenting and Parental Involvement in Secondary School: Focus Groups with Adolescents’ Parents

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Potential Factors to Enhance Students' STEM College Learning and Career Orientation

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Construção e análise das propriedades psicométricas da escala de envolvimento parental na decisão vocacional (EEPDV)

“…No contexto da pesquisa, sugere-se que seja relacionada com variáveis relevantes para o desenvolvimento de carreira, tais como adaptabilidade de carreira, comportamento exploratório, autoeficácia para decisão de carreira, com o objetivo de verificar os possíveis efeitos da influência parental sobre elas. Pelo que indica a literatura, é provável que desfechos positivos estejam relacionados à percepção de apoio parental, como a autonomia (Gordon & Cui, 2015), a autoeficácia para a tomada de decisão profissional (Fouad, Kim, Ghosh, Chang, & Figueiredo, 2016;Ginevra, Nota, & Ferrari, 2013;Sawitri, Creed, & Zimmer-Gembeck, 2015;Sovet & Metz, 2014), satisfação com a carreira (Gordon & Cui, 2015) e o comportamento exploratório (Bardagi et al, 2012;Sawitri et al, 2015). Tais aspectos podem ser investigados em futuros estudos, os quais são recomendados também para que se possam obter mais evidências de validade do instrumento.…”