Family Influence on Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy in College Students- A Quantitative Analysis

Abstract

This project explores the relationship between family influences and the career decisionmaking self-efficacy of college students pursuing their first year and graduate and post graduate programme. Career decision-making self-efficacy plays a vital role in understanding individuals‘ career behaviors. Family, as a primary source of social support, exerts a substantial influence on adolescents‘ career development and decision-making process. This study examined the role of selected family variables in predicting 300 college (1st year UG and 1st year PG) students‘ career decision-making self-efficacy. Family structural variables that reflected, family process-oriented variables, especially, parental career-related behaviors, were examined. The questionnaire we used for this quantitative study is parent career behaviour checklist questionnaire and Career Decision Making Self-efficacy questionnaire. Results showed that the parental general psycho social support was statistically important factor in predicting career decision-making self-efficacy, explaining of the variance of this construct for college students and results reflected that there was a negative correlation of family influence on students. There exists gender difference between Career decision-making self-efficacy and family influence it is also proven that there is a significant difference among gender between family influence and career decision-making self-efficacy.