LONGITUDINAL RELATIONS OF PARENTAL INFLUENCES AND ADOLESCENT CAREER ASPIRATIONS AND ACTIONS

What is it about?

This study investigated the longitudinal social cognitive career choice model that includes the constructs of interest of parental career expectations, adolescent-parent career congruence, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, career aspirations, and the career actions of planning and exploration. This study involved a sample of 954 Indonesian high school students, who were surveyed twice. First, when they were in Grade 10, and second, when they were in Grade 11, six months after the first data collection.

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Why is it important?

The study built on previous research in several notable ways: (a) we used the social cognitive career theory perspective to explain both career goals and actions; (b) we involved a large sample of Indonesian high school students, as this country has been categorised as a collectivist country (Hofstede & Hofstede, 2005); (c) we incorporated Lent’s (1994) and Bandura’s (1999, 2000) views on how proximal contextual variables should operate; (d) we tested these relationships longitudinally, at two time points during an active period of decision making: at Time 1 (T1), when students were considering their education or career-related options, and at Time 2 (T2), after they had made decisions about these options; and (e) we tested all theoretically plausible paths based on the cyclical nature of the social cognitive career variables.

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