Article
The Structural Relationship among Parents’ Career Expectation, Self-Differentiation, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Career Identity Perceived by Middle School Students
| e-ISSN | 2982-6845 |
| p-ISSN | 1226-4474 |
| Metrics | Views 0 / Downloads 0 |
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the structural relationship among parents’ career expectations fortheir children, self-differentiation, career decision-making self-efficacy, and career identity as perceived bymiddle school students. The subjects in the study were 608 students in their last year of middle school,327 male and 281 female. The results of this study showed that in general, parents’ career expectationshad a negative effect on self-differentiation, but aptitude-related career expectancy had a positive effect onself-differentiation. Aptitude-related career expectation also had a statistically significant effect on careerdecision-making self-efficacy while self-differentiation and career decision-making self-efficacy had astatistically significant effect on career identity. After probing through the data for any mediating effects,the study found that aptitude-related career expectation had a positive influence on career identity throughcareer decision-making self-efficacy, and also had a positive influence on career identity throughself-differentiation. Generalized career expectation had a negative effect on career identity throughself-differentiation. There was no significant gender difference found in terms of the paths of structuralrelationship among the research variables.