Too-much-of-a-good-thing? The curvilinear associations among Chinese adolescents' perceived parental career expectation, internalizing problems, and career development: A three-wave longitudinal study.

IF 3.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Counseling Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1037/cou0000687

Nan Zhou, Haoran Meng, Hongjian Cao, Yue Liang

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Abstract

Based on three-annual-wave data from 3,196 Chinese adolescents across the high school years (M_age = 15.55 years old, SD = .44; 52.8% girls at Wave 1, 10th grade), this study examined the curvilinear associations between adolescents' perceived parental career expectation and their career adaptability and ambivalence and also tested the potential mediating role of adolescents' internalizing problems in such associations. Results showed that, after controlling for a set of critical covariates and the baseline levels of outcome variables, there was an inverted U-shaped curvilinear association between adolescents' perceived parental career expectation at Wave 1 and their career adaptability at Wave 3 via adolescent internalizing problems at Wave 2. Similarly, a U-shaped curvilinear association also was identified between adolescents' perceived parental career expectation at Wave 1 and their career ambivalence at Wave 3 via their internalizing problems at Wave 2. These findings suggest that adolescents' perceived parental career expectation may have "too-much-of-a-good-thing" effects on their career development. Implications for future research and practice were discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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太棒了？中国青少年感知父母职业期望、内化问题和职业发展之间的曲线关联：一项三波纵向研究。

基于3196名高中时期中国青少年的三个年度波动数据（Mage=15.55岁，SD=.44；52.8%的女孩在波动1，10年级），本研究考察了青少年感知的父母职业期望与他们的职业适应性和矛盾心理之间的曲线关联，并检验了青少年内化问题在这种关联中的潜在中介作用。结果表明，在控制了一组关键协变量和结果变量的基线水平后，青少年在第1波的感知父母职业期望与他们在第3波的职业适应性之间存在倒U型曲线关联，这是通过青少年在第2波的内化问题实现的。同样，青少年在第1波的父母职业期望和他们在第3波的职业矛盾之间也存在U型曲线关联，这是通过他们在第2波的内化问题实现的。这些发现表明，青少年对父母职业期望的感知可能会对他们的职业发展产生“太多的影响”。讨论了对未来研究和实践的影响。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。

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Journal of Counseling Psychology Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Counseling Psychology® publishes empirical research in the areas of counseling activities (including assessment, interventions, consultation, supervision, training, prevention, and psychological education) career development and vocational psychology diversity and underrepresented populations in relation to counseling activities the development of new measures to be used in counseling activities professional issues in counseling psychology In addition, the Journal of Counseling Psychology considers reviews or theoretical contributions that have the potential for stimulating further research in counseling psychology, and conceptual or empirical contributions about methodological issues in counseling psychology research.