Influence of career decision-making self-efficacy, career maturity, parenting style, and parental perfectionism on career decision among undergraduate students

Career decision is one of the most investigated constructs in career development. Numerous studies assume that career decision is associated with various personal or external factors. Given that one of the primary goals of career counseling is to assist with the career decision-making process, research in this area is crucial. Therefore, the primary rationale for this study was to be the first known investigation into the relationship between parental perfectionism, parenting style, career decision self-efficacy, career maturity, and career indecision. This research was an initial attempt to integrate and extend existing research in the areas of parenting and career development using the less studied construct of parental perfectionism and to investigate whether gender plays a moderating effect on the relationships between exogenous variables and career indecision among undergraduate students. The multi-stage cluster random sampling method was employed to recruit a total of 543 undergraduate students aged 18 to 24 years from public universities in the Selangor state. Descriptive and correlational research design was employed. The respondents completed Career Decision Scale (CDS; Osipow, 1987), Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale – Short Form (CDSE-SF, Betz et al., 1996), Career Maturity Inventory-Revised (CMI-R; Crites and Savickas, 1996), Parental Authority Questionnaire-Revised (PAQ-R; Reitman et al., 2002), and Family Almost Perfect Scale (FAPS; Wang et al., 2010). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that undergraduate students with low career maturity and low career decision making self-efficacy were more likely to report high career indecision. Moreover, this study supported the moderating role of gender between career decision making self-efficacy with career indecision. Furthermore, parental perfectionism was the strongest predictor of career indecision among undergraduate students. The findings of this study also proposed that career maturity, career decision making self-efficacy, parenting style and parental perfectionism were valuable predictors of career indecision among undergraduate students. Overall, studied variables were explained 64% of the variance in career indecision. The current study advances understanding on the importance of career maturity and career decision making self-efficacy as influencing individual factors against career indecision. The findings of the study also provided evidence to increase understanding on the importance of parenting styles and parental perfectionism as external factors on career indecision among undergraduate students. The findings of the current study can be useful for counselors, therapists, educators, parents, and policy makers for prevention and intervention of career indecision among undergraduate students. However, more studies are needed to investigate the role and impact of parental perfectionism in career indecision

The Impact of Addictive Behaviors on Adolescents Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Peer Influence

Journal of Genetic Psycholog

Investigation of career indecision among Malaysian undergraduate students

The present study aimed to examine career indecision among Malaysian undergraduate students. The sample size of the study was 534 students aged from 18 to 24 which were chosen by a multi-stage cluster sampling method. For data collection Career Decision Scale (CDS) was utilized. The findings revealed that 74% of undergraduate students reported low to high career indecision, and only about 26% were decided about their future career. Furthermore, Male students scored lower in career indecision compared to females. Moreover, freshman students reported the highest level of career indecision in this study

Manifestation of parental perfectionism on career indecision.

The roles of family and parental perfectionism in career development are not yet understood and it has not been examined exclusively, particularly when assessing family influences in areas of career decision making and career indecision. The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution and role of parental perfectionism to the prediction of career indecision. A sample of 102 students (32 men, 70 women) responded to Career Decision Scale and The Almost Perfect Scale-Family. Data analysis using Pearson correlation coefficient revealed that parental perfectionism did relate to the career indecision of university students. The results from the current study further expand on the results from other studies in this area by providing insight into the effects of specific family dynamics and highlight the importance of integrating parental perfectionism into the conceptualization of career development in research and practice

The impact of addictive behaviors on adolescents psychological well-being : the mediating effect of perceived peer support

Studies exploring excessive Internet use and gambling are rapidly expanding concerns regarding its impact on mental health, especially in young people due to the increased prevalence of Internet and gambling addictions. Research suggests that perceived peer support plays a significant role in adolescents' psychological well-being. However, no empirical study has dealt with the mediating effect of perceived peer support on the relationship between Internet and gambling addictions and psychological well-being. Thus, the present study aimed to examine whether perceived peer support mediates the relation between Internet and gambling addictions and psychological well-being of adolescents. A sample of 347 Iranian adolescents aged 14 to 18 (Mean age 16.14, 50.4% male) who were studying in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia participated in this study. Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS), Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS), Six-item Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ6), and The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) were used to collect data. Mediation analyses showed a significant indirect effect of compulsive Internet use and problem gambling on psychological well-being through perceived peer support. The total effects of compulsive Internet use and problem gambling on psychological well-being were negative. This study implies the significance of strengthening the knowledge about the impact of peer relationships among adolescents