Testing Reciprocal Associations between Parenting and Youth’s Motivational Resources of Career Decision-Making Agency during the Postsecondary Transition

Ahn, Jiseul Sophia; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Plamondon, André; Duchesne, Stéphane; Guay, Frédéric

doi:10.1007/s10964-022-01672-8

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“…The tested model helps us to better understand the beneficial effects of socio-emotional skills in career behaviors (e.g., exploration behaviors) and thus contributes to a more integrated view of the relationships observed between emotions and career. Globally, the current article is in line with the substantial research literature that supports the relationship between parental support and career development outcomes (e.g., Ahn et al, 2022 ; Maftei et al, 2023 ). Our model incorporated four dimensions of parental support to better explain career exploration and curiosity in accordance with the main propositions of the socio cognitive theory (e.g., Bandura, 1997 ).…”

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confidence: 77%

“…In addition, these decisions may also be accompanied by high levels of anxiety, which may require the security and structure that is provided by parental support ( Kenny and Medvide, 2013 ; Katz et al, 2018 ). In fact, parental support has been widely considered as being crucial to develop career adaptive behaviors (e.g., career exploration) (e.g., Whiston and Keller, 2004 ; Hartung et al, 2005 ; Kenny and Medvide, 2013 ; Ahn et al, 2022 ). Some empirical studies that have analyzed this relationship suggest that greater parental support is associated with higher levels of career exploration ( Turan et al, 2014 ; Guan et al, 2015 ), and lower levels of indecision ( Guay et al, 2003 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Curiosity saved the cat: socio-emotional skills mediate the relationship between parental support and career exploration

Gamboa,

Rodrigues,

Bértolo

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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According to career literature, greater parental support seems to be associated with higher levels of career exploration. This relationship may be mediated by self-regulatory processes, such as social–emotional skills, as curiosity. However, despite the large number of empirical studies that analyze the antecedents of career exploration, there are no references, to our knowledge, to the role of socio-emotional skills. Following this gap, the present study aims to examine the extent to which perceived parental support is associated with career exploration through the mediating effect of curiosity (socio-emotional skill), among a group of 8th and 9th grade students from public schools in southern Portugal (N = 540). An integrated model was conducted using AMOS 20.0 and the results revealed that curiosity is a partial mediator of the relationship between perceived parental support and career exploration. These results highlight the importance of considering socio-emotional skills (such as curiosity) when designing interventions to foster adaptive career behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed to open the opportunity to progressively extend the participation of proximal contexts (e.g., families) to career and socio-emotional skills development processes.

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confidence: 99%

Curiosity saved the cat: socio-emotional skills mediate the relationship between parental support and career exploration

Gamboa,

Rodrigues,

Bértolo

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…To our knowledge, only one recent study examined the career-related child-driven effect. In a sample of 642 French-Canadian youth, Ahn et al (2022) found that youth’s career decision-making competence predicted parental career support across high school years and vice versa.…”

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Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years

Zhou¹,

Cao

Wang

et al. 2023

Journal of Career Assessment

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The potential mediating role of career-related parenting practice in the association between parental career expectation and adolescents’ career development remains understudied, especially the likely transactional dynamics inherent within such links. This study utilized three-annual-wave data from 3196 Chinese adolescents across the high school years ( Mage = 15.55 years old, SD = .44; 52.8% girls at Wave 1) to address such gaps. Results of cross-lagged structural equational modeling analyses demonstrated reciprocal associations between parental career expectation and career adaptability consistently across three high school years; and career-related parental support served as a mediator in such associations, net of a series of covariates. However, no associations of career ambivalence with parental career expectation across the high school years emerged. Such findings highlighted the dynamic nature of the associations among parental career expectation, career-related parenting practice, and adolescents’ career developmental outcomes. Implications for future research and practice were discussed.

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“…First, based on existing conceptual and theoretical proposals, the current study adopts a cross-sectional design to investigate how and when PAS and PBC are related to Chinese students’ creativity. Although longitudinal design can identify causal and dynamic relationships between parental variables and their children’s outcomes (Ahn et al, 2022; Gao et al, 2022), retesting using the same materials could lead to participants depending on their priorly generated responses or even attempting to avoid the tasks (Zyga et al, 2022). The potential mechanisms we documented are not actual trajectories of change but capturing the overall picture and documenting differences in mechanisms among students at different stages (Feldman, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.

Liu,

Zhang,

Liu

et al. 2024

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Testing Reciprocal Associations between Parenting and Youth’s Motivational Resources of Career Decision-Making Agency during the Postsecondary Transition

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

Curiosity saved the cat: socio-emotional skills mediate the relationship between parental support and career exploration

Curiosity saved the cat: socio-emotional skills mediate the relationship between parental support and career exploration

Parental Career Expectation Predicts Adolescent Career Development Through Career-Related Parenting Practice: Transactional Dynamics Across High School Years

Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.

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