The role of family patterns in career decision-making during the school-university-work transition: A study on secondary school students
Amelia Manuti, Maria Luisa Giancaspro
Over the last few decades, theory and practice has been focusing on the role of career decision-making processes in the school-work transition. The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between the career decision-making process and family influence. 169 secondary school students attending their fourth and fifth years were involved and were invited to fill in a questionnaire encompassing the following measures: career decision-making difficulties scale, career decision-making self-efficacy scale, family environment scale and parental expectations scale. Results show that the perception of the family environment is a significant predictor of both career decision-making difficulties and career decision-making self-efficacy. Conversely, parental expectations predict only career decision-making self-efficacy.
Keywords
career decision-making difficulties; career decision-making self-efficacy; family patterns; family environment.
