Parenting styles and career decision-making among French and Korean adolescents

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties in college students, and uncovered the mediating roles of core self-evaluation and career calling. A total of 1,127 undergraduates were recruited to complete the questionnaires about parenting styles, core self-evaluation, career calling, and career decision-making difficulties. The results showed that: (1) Positive and negative parenting styles could positively predict career decision-making difficulties in college students. (2) Core self-evaluation and career calling mediated the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. Sequential dual mediators only found in which positive paternal and maternal parenting styles predict career decision-making difficulties through core self-evaluation and career calling. (3) Further analysis revealed gender difference in the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. The relation between paternal positive parenting style and career decision-making difficulties was significant in male students, but absent in female students; the relation between maternal positive parenting and career decision-making difficulties and the relation between paternal negative parenting and career calling were significant in female students, but absent in male students; and the relation between career calling and career decision-making difficulties was greater in male than in female. The current study expanded and deepened those existing understandings about the relationship between parenting styles and adolescents’ career decisions, so as to further reveal its internal mechanism and provide more reasonable suggestions and targeted guidance for career counseling.

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High school students’ career decision-making pattern across parenting styles and parental attachment levels

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology ◽

10.25115/ejrep.v8i20.1379 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (20) ◽

Author(s):

Fulya Cenkseven-Önder ◽

Oğuzhan Kırdök ◽

Erkan Işık

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Decision Making ◽

High School Students ◽

Parenting Styles ◽

Parental Attachment ◽

Career Decision ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

School Students

Introducción. El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar los patrones de elección de carrera entre alumnado de secundaria en relación con los estilos de crianza parental (autoritativo, autoritario, permisivo y negligente) y los niveles de apego con los padres.Método. Con este objetivo, 382 estudiantes turcos de secundaria (200 mujeres y 182 hombres) con edades comprendidas entre los 14 y los 18 años completaron el Inventario de Elección de la Carrera, el Inventario de Estilos de Crianza Parental y el Inventario de Apego Parental, como medidas de elección de la carrera, estilo de crianza y niveles de apego, respectivamente. Para el análisis de los datos se utilizo el análisis ANOVA.Resultados. Los resultados del estudio muestran que los niños con padres autoritativos y autoritarios eran más decididos que aquellos con padres negligentes o permisivos. En términos de niveles de apego, se encontraron diferencias significativas entre todas la subescalas del inventario. Además, el alumnado con niveles medios de apego eran más decididos que aquellos que experimentaron niveles bajos o altos de apego.Discusión. De acuerdo con los resultados, los efectos de los estilos de crianza y los niveles de apego en la elección de la carrera deben tenerse en consideración en relacción con el desarollo de la carrera y la elección de la misma. De la misma manera, futuras investigaciones deberían explicar la elección de la carrera en términos de estilos de crianza y niveles de apego en relación con el género y la edad para así identificar indicadores relevantes para cada nivel de edad y género.

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