Sunday 24 June 2012

An exploratory study on the relationship between parents' career interest and the career interests of young adults

(Synopsis) 
In this study,the writer attemp to investigat the potential effects of parents' Hong Kong,results indicated that after controlling for personality,gender,general mental abilities and emotional intelligence,some of the parents' career interests were still related to the young adults' respective career interest.For some types of interest,the extent of influences is found to be contigent on the gender of respondents. (Personal characteristics and career-related variables) The extent literature suggest that personal characteristics such as personality traits and gender will affect young adults' career development.Definition of personality can be briefly explain as stable straits that influence how people think,feel,and behave across different situations.Personality is also based on genetics and environmental factors.The Five-Factors Model of personality is theoretically driven and widely researched.They are neurotucism,agrreableness,openness,extraversion and conscientiousness. To systematically examine the relationship between the Five-Factor traits and career-relevant activities,the writer use Holland's classification of occupational activities wheres there are six major type of career activities:realistic,investigative,artistic,social enterprising and convectional.The relationships among the dimensions of the Five-Factor Model of personality and the six types of career interest have been examined in numerous studies and the strongest associations were found among the following scales :

1.Openness and Artistic
2.Investigative and Social 
3.Extrversion with Enterprising and Social
4.Agreeableness and Social 
5.Conscientiousness and Enterprising and Conventional
6.Neuroticism and Enterprising 

 Apart from that,gender is also one major influences on the development of career interest and choices(Lent,Brown, & Hackett,1994).In a recent meta-analysis,Su,Rounds and Armstrong(2009) concluded that men showed stronger preferences for relistic and investigative jobs,while women had stronger preferences for conventional,social and aetistic occupations.There is also abilities that may affect the development of young adults' career interest.However,there are some generic tpe of abilities that have important impact on wether children and adolescenes can master different type of activities (Familial Influences on career-relates variables) While familial influences on young adults' career development have been well recognized by scholars,the conceptualization of this influences differs among studies.Some studies have concentrated on objective variables such as birth order and family system on various career-related variables(e.g.,Bradley & Mims,1992; Leong,Hartung,Goh&Gaylor,2001).

There are atleast two limitations in the extent literature concerning the impact of familial influences on career development.


1.Although the focus of these studies is on familial influences,few effort have been devoted by the writer to parent education concerning how the parents help the offspring in career-related issues.
2.Influences on variables related to career decisions-making self-efficacy. 


Futhermore,using young adults' own career interest to counsel them may be more effective than other reward based variables(salary,benefits etc).Finally,career interest are related to concrete activities.To develop some kind of interest,the parent applied it at home and provide chances for young people to actually engage in similar activities and help them master the activities.Thus,the writer wants to test wether parent were to shape their children careers.Futhermore,fathers may interact more frequently with sons and vice versa.If this can be supported empirically by the writer,then it will provide more evidences for assumption that parents' activities could have impact on the children's interest development.

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