Parental Influences on Greek Adolescents' Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Core Self-Evaluations

Autor/inn/en	Koumoundourou, Georgia; Tsaousis, Ioannis; Kounenou, Kalliope
Titel	Parental Influences on Greek Adolescents' Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Core Self-Evaluations
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Assessment, 19 (2011) 2, S.165-182 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-0727
DOI	10.1177/1069072710385547
Schlagwörter	Family Characteristics; Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Career Counseling; Gender Differences; Personality Development; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Family Influence; Predictor Variables; Adolescent Attitudes; Mediation Theory; Junior High School Students; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Decision Making Skills; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Prädiktor; Mediationsverfahren; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausland; Fragebogen; Griechenland
Abstract	The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of family characteristics (family function and parental authority styles) and core self-evaluations (CSE), in adolescents' career formation. Drawing on the relational framework of Cutrona and Russell, the study examined the mediating role of CSE on the relationship between family and parental variables and adolescents' career decision-making (CDM) difficulties. Using a sample of 289 Greek students, it was found that for male students the permissive and authoritarian parenting styles and the family cohesion contributed significantly to the prediction of CDM difficulties. Males' decision-making difficulties were not influenced by CSE. Females' decision-making difficulties were influenced negatively only by the parents' authoritarian style. Contrary to males, CSE fully mediated the relationship between the authoritarian style and females' decision-making difficulties. The specific findings are discussed in reference to gender differences in adolescents' personality development. Implications for research and adolescents' career counseling are also discussed. (Contains 2 notes, 4 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10