Career development in adolescence as a family project.

Abstract

This study conceptualizes and investigates career-relevant parent-child conversations and other actions over time as a family project. Dyads composed of a parent and an adolescent from 20 families participated in a videotaped career-related conversation to determine a family career-development project that was subsequently monitored for a 6-month period and followed up with a 2nd videotaped conversation. On the basis of a systematic qualitative analysis, several dimensions were identified as facilitating the family career-development project, including joint goals, communication, goals-steps congruence, and individuation. These family career-development projects were organized as part of broader relationship, identity, parenting, and cultural projects that also played a decisive role in the success of the family career-development projects themselves.

Career-specific parental behaviors, career exploration and career adaptability: A three-wave investigation among Chinese undergraduates

“…When parents try to enforce their own ideas on their offspring's career development, these practices are likely to inhibit youths' sense of autonomy and erode their intrinsic motivation (Deci & Ryan, 1985;Ryan & Deci, 2000). Accordingly, previous research has found that youths under over-controlling parental practices are more passive in their career preparation, and displayed a high level of behavioral inhibition and lack of exploration activities (Grotevant & Cooper, 1988;Young et al, 2001). Therefore, in current research we also propose that parental career interference will be negatively related to career exploration, and will also has a negative effect on career adaptability.…”

Calling orientations of junior doctors and medical interns in India: cultural, occupational and relational perspectives

“…Callings can therefore be seen as either having a religious or a 'secular, inner-directed' quality (Hall & Chandler, 2005 (Blustein, 2011;Bryant Zvonkovic, & Reynolds, 2006;Young et al, 2001). India exhibits midlevel collectivism with high power distance between members, where the duty towards others and 'serving and sacrificing' for the in-group is seen as the norm (Singelis, Triandis, Bhawuk, & Gelfand, 1995, p. 244).…”

“…Family communication is central to generativity (Young et al, 2001), where the recipients of generative communication are found to imbibe the values inherent in transmitted messages. For example, a longitudinal study by Pratt, Norris, Hebblethwaite, and Arnold (2008) found that a greater number of life interventions by more generative parents were associated with greater adolescent acceptance of conveyed value messages.…”

‘Everything comes down to money’?: Migration and working life trajectories in a (post-)socialist context

“…Additionally, research has acknowledged the impact of external factors, for example the environment in which an individual was raised and her or his socialisation experiences, family expectations and needs, life circumstances, spiritual and religious factors, and social service motivation upon the internal expectations and beliefs regarding her or his career trajectory Fouad, 2007;Greenhaus and Powell, 2006;Halpern, 2005;Schultheiss, 2006). For example, family expectations and needs can restrain the individual's career choices (Greenhaus et al, 2001;Halpern, 2005), but family can also contribute to extending and enhancing the options available to a given person, through providing her or him with financial and emotional support, networking and social resources (Pearson and Bieschke, 2001;Schultheiss, 2003;Young et al, 2001). Similarly, life circumstances can have both negative -as in the case of poverty, marginalisation, or stigmatisation (Arnold and Doctoroff, 2003;Blustein et al, 2002) -and positive impacts, for example through presenting individuals with random, serendipitous occurrences, leading to beneficial career outcomes for them (Mitchell et al, 1999).…”