Collectivism and Perceived Congruence With Parents as Antecedents to Career Aspirations

Abstract

Cultural orientation and perceived career congruence with parents are potentially important influences on adolescent career development in collectivist contexts, but few studies have integrated these variables in a social cognitive-based model. We surveyed 337 grade 10 students (53% girls, mean age 15.9 years) from Central Java, Indonesia, and examined a model which consisted of vertical (VC) and horizontal collectivism (HC), perceived congruence with parents, self-efficacy, and career aspirations. After controlling for SES and school achievement, HC was more strongly associated with perceived congruence with parents than VC, and VC and HC were indirectly associated with aspirations via congruence and self-efficacy. These two patterns of collectivism were directly and indirectly associated with self-efficacy via congruence, and perceived congruence was indirectly associated with aspirations via self-efficacy. This study underlined the effects of VC, HC, and perceived adolescent-parent career congruence on career decision-making self-efficacy and aspirations of adolescents from a collectivistic country.

Career‐Related Parental Processes and Career Adaptability and Ambivalence Among Chinese Adolescents: A Person‐Centered Approach

“…As a result, the (in)congruence between parents’ and adolescents’ expectations toward career may hold critical implications for adolescents’ career development (Sawitri, Creed, & Zimmer‐Gembeck, ; Wang & Benner, ). Findings of several studies by Sawitri and colleagues in samples of Indonesia adolescents indicated that adolescent–parent congruence was positively related to adolescents’ various career developmental outcomes, including career decision‐making efficacy, career aspirations, and career exploration (e.g., Sawitri & Creed, ; Sawitri et al., , Sawitri et al., ).…”

“…Adolescence is a critical stage during which individuals often begin to prepare themselves for the world of work and develop a vocational identity (Lee, Porfeli, & Hirschi, 2016). Both theoretical work (e.g., Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) and empirical findings (e.g., Sawitri & Creed, 2017;Sawitri, Creed, & Zimmer-Gembeck, 2015;Wang & Heppner, 2002;Young et al, 2006) have highlighted the key roles of parents in fostering adolescents' exploration of their educational and career developmental plans to decrease career ambivalence and to promote career adaptability. Specifically, the identified relevant parental processes include parental expectations toward children's career development, parental career-related parenting practices (i.e., support, interference, and barriers to engagement), and parent-child congruence over children's career development.…”

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“…Memberikan dorongan dan perlakuan terhadap siswa diakui bukan perkara yang mudah (Yeager & Walton, 2011). Namun, kita perlu menyadari bahwa siswa perlu mendapatkan bimbingan dan pengarahan terus-menerus dari orangtuanya, sehingga orangtua dapat mencocokkan antara aspirasinya dengan minat anak untuk melanjutkan studi (Sawitri & Creed, 2017). Sebagai orangtua, sudah selayaknya memberikan pendidikan yang setinggi-tingginya bagi anak.…”

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“…20 Adolescent-parent career congruence was found to lead to positive outcomes. 9,10,11 For example, adolescent-parent career congruence was found to be correlated positively with life satisfaction, parental support, and living-up to parental expectations. 1 Adolescent-parent career congruence was also found to be associated indirectly with career aspirations, via self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and was found to be related with career planning and exploration via selfefficacy, outcome expectations, and aspirations in a sample of Indonesian high school students.…”