Career Search Self-Efficacy, Family Support, and Career Indecision With Italian Youth
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- 1 May 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Career Assessment
- Vol. 15 (2) , 181-193
Abstract
Family support has been found to influence both career self-efficacy beliefs and career decision making. The purpose of this study was to verify whether career search self-efficacy could mediate the relationship between family support and career indecision.Using a sample of 253 Italian youth, the study found that, for male adolescents attending a university-preparation high school, career search self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between family support and career indecision. Contrary to expectations, for female adolescents there was no direct relationship between family support and career indecision; however, family support was directly associated with career search self-efficacy and career search self-efficacy was associated with career indecision.Keywords
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