Abstract
This study aims to investigate the impact of parental career behaviors on undergraduate student’s career exploration and the mediating role of career self-efficacy. In the literature it is suggested that some social and individual factors facilitate students’ career exploration. Therefore, parental career behaviors and career self-efficacy is considered as predictors of student’s career exploration attitudes within the scope of the study. In this respect, data which are collected from 405 undergraduate students having an education on tourism and hotel management field by the survey method are analyzed by using the structural equation modeling. The results of the study indicate that parental career behaviors which are addressed support; interference and lack of engagement have a significant effect on student’s career exploration behaviors such as intended-systematic exploration, environment exploration and self-exploration. In addition, it has been found that one of the dimensions of parental career behaviors addressed as a lack of engagement has a significant effect on career self-efficacy levels of students. However, research results indicate that student’s career self-efficacy has a significant effect on only the self-exploration dimension. On the other hand, career self-efficacy has a partial mediating role between lack of engagement attitudes of parents and career exploration behaviors of students.
Highlights
During adolescence, the preparation for adulthood includes becoming concerned about and forming plans for the future occupational life
In the current era, due to the emerging of social and technological changes in working world, it is seen that the ability of adolescents’ to seek career opportunities, to recognize their concerns and interests related with their career have become an important topic
Career exploration considered as one of the important activities which refers to adolescents’' collecting and analyzing information on jobs, organizations, occupations and themselves
Summary
The preparation for adulthood includes becoming concerned about and forming plans for the future occupational life. The exploration stage is a crucial period in career development During this phase individuals initiate thoughts and behaviors that will likely lead to a future career choice (Bartley and Robitschek, 2000: 63). Recent researches have showed that these parental behaviors significantly predicted career exploration and career decision-making difficulties of adolescents, as well as the career self-efficacy of the university students (Guan et al, 2015: 96). In this context, it can be said that parental behaviors are considered as crucial which provide students some information related with their future career and facilitate their career choices and provide them to develop their career. This study aims to investigate the antecedents of career exploration of undergraduate students so it attempts to add contribution to the literature
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