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The Mediating Impact of Parental Support on the Relationship Between Personality and Career Indecision in Adolescents
10.1177/1069072716652890
000412659600003
Marcionetti
Jenny
author
Rossier
Jérôme
author
article
2017-11
Journal of Career Assessment
1069-0727
1552-4590
journal
25
4
601-615
In the Swiss education system, approximately 55% of adolescents are required to make their first vocational choice at the end of mandatory school. This can induce transitory or long-lasting career indecision that is recognized as being influenced by personal and contextual factors. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationships between career decision-making difficulties and the five-factor model of personality traits, parental support, and self-esteem in 448 grade nine Swiss adolescents. We then proceeded to test if these relationships vary according to the adolescent’s educational choice (i.e., whether they attend high school or if they choose an apprenticeship or vocational training). Results have highlighted the importance of neuroticism, conscientiousness and parental support to predict career decision-making difficulties. Moreover, parental support mediated the relationships between extraversion and agreeableness (fully), and conscientiousness (partially) and career decision-making difficulties. Finally, the educational choice had no impact on the overall pattern of relationships. Implications for career counselor practices were further discussed.
Career indecision
Personality
Self-esteem
Parental support
Educational choice
Adolescence
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
University of Lausanne
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