Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability

Anna Parola · Jenny Marcionetti

113 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Career Development

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Career Development and Diversity Higher Education and Employability Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Abstract

According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of career adaptability between parental career-related behaviors and CDD and life satisfaction. Five hundred thirteen Italian students (182 of middle school, 141 of high school, and 190 of university) were involved. The results showed that parental support influences CDD and life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through the mediation of career adaptability. Parental interference and lack of engagement have a positive direct effect on CDD. Finally, CDD and life satisfaction are significantly and negatively associated. The data support the key role of parental support and career adaptability in CDD and life satisfaction. Practical implications are discussed.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 113 citations exist upstream.

References

1999Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives 1985The Satisfaction With Life Scale 2000Structural equation modeling with AMOS: basic concepts, applications, and programming 2002Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance 2007Sensitivity of Goodness of Fit Indexes to Lack of Measurement Invariance 1984Subjective Well-Being 1989EQS : structural equations program manual 2001A Scaled Difference Chi-Square Test Statistic for Moment Structure Analysis

Cited by

2022The influence of motivation, self-efficacy, and fear of failure on the career adaptability of vocational school students: Moderated by meaning in life 2023The Influence of Individual and Contextual Factors on the Vocational Choices of Adolescents and Their Impact on Well-Being 2024Examining the relationship between self-efficacy, career development, and subjective wellbeing in physical education students 2023Social-Emotional Skills, Career Adaptability, and Agentic School Engagement of First-Year High School Students

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.