Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to investigate the relationship between 3 styles of parental career support (support style, interfere style and lack of engagement style), career decision-making self-efficacy and career indecision in high school students. Participants were 1,140 high school students. Instruments were parental career support scale, career indecision scale, and career decision-making self-efficacy scale. Data were collected via sets of questionnaires and subsequently analyzed using the structural equation modeling through LISREL. The findings reveal that the causal model where 3 styles of parental career support were used to predict career indecision in high school students with career decision-making self-efficacy being a mediator, fits the empirical data (Chi-square=25.520, df= 22, p=.273, GFI =.996 and RMSEA=.012). The model accounted for 62.10% of the varience of career indecision. Career decicion-making self-efficacy was most salient in predicting career indecision (β = -.90, p < .01), followed by parental career support, the lack of engagement style (β = .45, p < .01) and support style (β = .37, p < .01). However, the total effect on career indecision of Interfere style was not significant (β = -.09, ns). Additionally, parental career support accounted for 51.90% of the varience of career decision-making self-efficacy, with support style being most salient in its predictive value (β = -.90, p < .01), followed by lack of engagement style (β = .50, p < .01) and interfere style (β = -.24, p < .01)