Naslov
Parental career-specific behaviors and adolescents’ career adaptability

Autori
Iva Šverko ; Mara Šimunović ; Toni Babarović

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
17th European Association for Research on Adolescence conference - Book of Abstracts / Vazsonyi , Alexander ; Barbot, Baptiste ; Crocetti, Elisabetta ; Juang, Linda - Porto : European Association for Research on Adolescence, 2020, 40-40

Skup
17th Biennial Conference (EARA 2020)

Mjesto i datum
Porto, Portugal, 02.09.2020. - 05.09.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
parental career involvement ; career adaptability ; career development ; parents’ behaviors

Sažetak
Parental support, interference, and career engagement present basic elements of career- specific parental behaviors (Dietrich & Kracke, 2009). Research has shown that these behaviors may affect various outcomes related to adolescents’ career development. (Dietrich & Kracke, 2009 ; Guan et al., 2015). The goal of this study is to examine how is parent career- related involvement related to high school students’ career adaptability. Career adaptability presents self-regulatory capacities that individuals use to cope with the challenges in their career transitions (Savickas, 1997). In the scope of this aim, we will examine how are three facets of parents’ career-specific behaviors and interactions between these behaviors related to students’ career adaptability. The participants in this study are 220 high school students, aged 15 to 18 (equally distributed by gender). Students’ career adaptability will be measured with Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012). The scale consists of 24 items to which participants respond on a scale from 1 (not strong) to 5 (strongest). Parents’ career- related behaviors will be measured by the scale developed by Dietrich and Kracke (2009). This scale contains 15 items to which students respond on the 4-point Likert scale (1 = does not apply, 4= fully applies). The data will be collected in group testing in students’ schools. Students will complete the questionnaire online in their computer classrooms. We expect that career adaptability will be positively predicted by parents’ support and negatively by parents’ interference and lack of engagement. We also expect that parents’ behaviors will interact in predicting students’ career adaptability. For example, the positive effects of parental support on career adaptability is expected to be stronger when parents provide a higher level of engagement. Findings have implications for interventions and counseling work with parents in order to stimulate adolescents’ positive career development and adaptive career behaviors.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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