Validação da Career-Related Parent Support Scale numa amostra de estudantes portugueses

Abstract

A Career Related Parent Support Scale (CRPSS) procura avaliar, de acordo com as principais fontes de autoeficácia, o suporte parental percebido, em quatro dimensões: modelação de carreira, suporte emocional, apoio instrumental, e persuasão verbal. No presente estudo, tivemos como objetivo apresentar os principais resultados do processo de tradução e de adaptação à população portuguesa da CRPSS, com uma amostra de 338 estudantes dos ensinos básico e secundário. Globalmente, os resultados das análises realizadas aos itens e às diferentes subescalas atestam a qualidade psicométrica da CRPSS. No que se refere à análise fatorial confirmatória (AFC), os índices de qualidade do ajustamento ao modelo em quatro fatores foram satisfatórios, embora tenha sido necessário eliminar três itens, o que parece estar de acordo com os resultados obtidos em outros estudos de validação. A CRPSS associou-se de modo significativo à autoeficácia na tomada de decisão e aos comportamentos de exploração de carreira, evidenciando a sua validade convergente. Em síntese, os bons níveis de precisão e de validade obtidos parecem suportar a utilização da versão portuguesa na avaliação do suporte parental percebido em adolescentes portugueses.

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

“…Indeed, in intentional and goal-directed actions, such as career exploration activities, emotions may have a self-regulatory function in information-seeking behaviors ( Young et al, 2002 ). In this regard, it should be noted that the results observed in the studies by Lee et al (2016) and, more recently, Gamboa et al (2021) corroborate the assumptions of Blustein (1988) and Flum and Blustein (2000) , who describe exploration as a goal-oriented process. Thus, research is needed to analyze the role of the processes that initiate, cease, sustain, and guide career exploration.…”

“…Cronbach’s alpha for the Portuguese version ranged from 0.63 to 0.83. Research that used this version found internal consistency values for the two exploration processes used in this study between 0.74 and 0.79 ( Paixão and Gamboa, 2017 , 2022 ; Gamboa et al, 2021 ) and we obtained values of 0.80 for environmental exploration and 0.76 for self-exploration.…”

“…The higher the score is, the greater the perceived parental support. The validity and reliability of the scale have already been demonstrated, both in the original version ( Turner et al, 2003 ) and in the Portuguese version ( Gamboa et al, 2021 ). In the present study, the estimates of internal consistency in the subscales varied between 0.81 (Verbal Encouragement) and 0.87 (Emotional Support) and for the entire scale, the value observed was 0.93.…”

“…Parental support was assessed with the Career-Related Parent Support Scale (CRPSS, Turner et al, 2003 ; adapt. Gamboa et al, 2021 ). The CRPSS aims to assess students’ perceptions of parental support toward career and educational development along the four sources of self-efficacy expectations proposed by Bandura (1997) .…”

Socio-emotional skills profiles and their relations with career exploration and perceived parental support among 8th grade students

“…The perceived parental support was assessed with the Career-Related Parent Support Scale (CRPSS, Turner et al, 2003 ; adapt. Gamboa et al, 2021 ). It aims to assess students’ perceptions of parental support toward career and educational development along the four sources of self- efficacy expectations proposed by Bandura (1997) .…”