The interactive effects of self- and parent-referenced career goal discrepancies on young adults’ career indecision
Arini Widyowati,
Michelle Hood,
Amanda Duffy
et al.
Abstract:We tested a model in which discrepancy with parents’ career goals moderated the indirect path from young adults’ self-perceived career goal discrepancy to career indecision via negative emotions (regret and distress) and self-regulatory capacity. We surveyed 236 young adults (MAge = 21.77 years; 71.2% female), finding that parent discrepancy strengthened the positive relationships between self-discrepancy and career regret and self-regulatory depletion, but not distress. However, career distress fully explaine… Show more
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