TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-Specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability
AU - Guan, Yanjun
AU - Wang, Zhen
AU - Gong, Qing
AU - Cai, Zijun
AU - Xu, Sabrina Lingxiao
AU - Xiang, Qian
AU - Wang, Yang
AU - Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua
AU - Hu, Hanlin
AU - Tian, Lin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - This study examined how Chinese parents’ career values and adaptability predict their career-specific parenting behaviors and their children’s career adaptability. We conducted a survey study with Chinese university students and their parents (N = 264), and found support for the mediating roles of career-specific parenting behaviors in linking parents’ vocational characteristics and children’s career adaptability. Specifically, parental support is positively related to parents’ intrinsic fulfillment values, work–life balance values, and career adaptability. Moreover, parental support mediates the relationship between these variables and undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental engagement mediates the negative effect of external compensation values and positive effect of work–life balance values on undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental interference is negatively related to parents’ work–life balance values, and positively related to their external compensation values and career adaptability, but does not significantly predict undergraduates’ career adaptability. These findings advance current understanding of the career construction theory.
AB - This study examined how Chinese parents’ career values and adaptability predict their career-specific parenting behaviors and their children’s career adaptability. We conducted a survey study with Chinese university students and their parents (N = 264), and found support for the mediating roles of career-specific parenting behaviors in linking parents’ vocational characteristics and children’s career adaptability. Specifically, parental support is positively related to parents’ intrinsic fulfillment values, work–life balance values, and career adaptability. Moreover, parental support mediates the relationship between these variables and undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental engagement mediates the negative effect of external compensation values and positive effect of work–life balance values on undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental interference is negatively related to parents’ work–life balance values, and positively related to their external compensation values and career adaptability, but does not significantly predict undergraduates’ career adaptability. These findings advance current understanding of the career construction theory.
KW - boundaryless careers
KW - career adaptability
KW - career construction theory
KW - career values
KW - career-specific parenting behaviors
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U2 - 10.1177/0011000018808215
DO - 10.1177/0011000018808215
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058477097
SN - 0011-0000
VL - 46
SP - 922
EP - 946
JO - Counseling Psychologist
JF - Counseling Psychologist
IS - 7
ER -