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Career‐Related Parent Support and Career Barriers: An Investigation of Contextual Variables
Author(s) -
RaqueBogdan Trisha L.,
Klingaman Elizabeth A.,
Martin Helena M.,
Lucas Margaretha S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2013.00060.x
Subject(s) - psychology , ethnic group , social support , perception , social cognitive theory , coping (psychology) , career counseling , career development , social psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , applied psychology , sociology , neuroscience , anthropology
The authors used social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, [Lent, R. W., 1994]) as the basis for examining the person and contextual variables of gender, ethnicity, educational and career barriers, and career‐related parent support for incoming 1st‐year African American, Asian, Latino, and White college students. Women, as compared to men, perceived significantly higher levels of career barriers but similar levels of coping efficacy in dealing with these barriers. Women also reported receiving more career‐related emotional support from parents than did men. For all participants, career‐related parent support accounted for a significant portion of the variance for perceptions of educational and career barriers and coping efficacy with educational and career barriers.