Abstract
Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but the validation refers to the Swiss context. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB) in a sample of 323 adolescents and, after an item-adaption, in a sample of 374 university students in Italy. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed to support the three-dimensional structure of the original PCB. Moreover, associations between PCB and career decision-making difficulties were investigated. The results showed that the PCB is a useful instrument for measuring parental career-related behaviors also in the Italian context. Finally, the PCB dimensions were meaningfully related to career decision-making difficulties.
Highlights
The influence of parents on career development was acknowledged in several studies on adolescents and young people (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006; Halpern, 2005; Hughes & Thomas, 2003; Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Schultheiss, 2006)
The present study aimed to test the psychometric characteristics of the Parental Career-related Behaviors questionnaire (PCB) in adolescents and young adults in the Italian context
In Study I, factor structure, reliability and discriminant validity of the parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB) were evaluated in the teenage population
Summary
The influence of parents on career development was acknowledged in several studies on adolescents and young people (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006; Halpern, 2005; Hughes & Thomas, 2003; Paa & McWhirter, 2000; Schultheiss, 2006). Other studies focused on the effects of parental support on career development These studies showed that parental support increased self-efficacy in career decision-making (Kush & Cochran, 1993; Lent et al, 2003; Wolfe & Betz, 2004), vocational adaptability (Kenny & Bledsoe, 2005), career exploration (Kracke, 1997), and decreased career indecision (Guerra & Braungart-Rieker, 1999). In this sense, parents can be a precious resource for the individual in transition (i.e., transition between educational systems or school-towork transitions), providing instrumental and emotional support (Marcionetti & Rossier, 2016). Families could be a risk factor or an obstacle for career choices (Zhao et al, 2012)
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