The Mediating Effect of Self-identity on the Relationship of Parent-Adolescent Communication and Career-decision Making

The Relationship Between Family Communication Quality and the Career Maturity of Adolescents: The Role of Time Perspective

“…7 As one of the three core dimensions of marital and family systems, 8 family communication has important implications for adolescents' career maturity. Previous research has found that high-quality communication between parents and children enables adolescents to achieve high levels of career maturity 9 and other aspects of positive career development, such as awareness of career barriers, 10 career aspiration, 11 rational career decision-making, 12 and career resilience. 13 High-quality family communication can facilitate the fulfillment of adolescents' psychological need for relatedness, the operation of family function, and the positive development of parent-adolescent relationships.…”

“…22 Since the development of career maturity depends on the context and historical time, 23 examining this association in the unique Chinese cultural context can extend our understanding of this domain. Second, although several recent studies have examined the mediating factors through which parent-adolescent communication quality can influence adolescents' career development, including self-encouragement, 11 self-efficacy, 10,11 and self-identity, 12 the underlying mechanisms are not yet comprehensively understood. In light of these limitations, we attempted to investigate the link between parentadolescent communication quality and adolescents' career maturity and to identify factors that mediate this link in the contemporary Chinese cultural context.…”

“…8 These familial factors provide a supportive adolescents can exchange information and opinions with parents, obtain advice and guidance from parents, and acquire skills pertaining to self-regulation and planning, which is beneficial for adolescents' career development. 10,12 In contrast, problems in communication, such as a lack of communication, hesitation to disclose experiences, and negative interactions, are detrimental to adolescents' development of career maturity. 8,11 This result extends our understanding of the association between family communication quality and career maturity in a non-Western cultural context.…”

“…First, this study extends previous research by demonstrating that adolescents' time perspective also plays an important role in mediating the link between family communication quality and adolescents' career maturity in addition to the previously discussed roles of self-encouragement, 11 self-efficacy, 10,11 and selfidentity. 12 Second, we explored the typical profiles of time perspective among mainland Chinese adolescents and investigated the links between these profiles and both parent-adolescent communication quality and career maturity. The results help us understand adolescents' tendencies to manage the five dimensions of time perspective.…”