Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 1135: Authoritative Filial Piety Rather than Reciprocal Filial Piety Mediated the Relationship Between Parental Support, Career Decision Self-Efficacy, and Discrepancies Between Individual-Set and Parent-Set Career Goals

Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs15081135

Authors:
Shanshan Guan
Fanrong Meng
Chenggang Wu

Although a wealth of research has examined the predictors influencing the discrepancies between individual-set and parent-set career goals (DBIPCG), investigations grounded in collectivist cultural perspectives remain relatively scarce. Within collectivist societies, filial piety holds profound cultural significance. Drawing on a dual filial piety framework encompassing reciprocal filial piety (RFP) and authoritative filial piety (AFP), this study aims to explore the interconnections among parental support, self-efficacy in career decision-making, dual filial piety orientations, and DBIPCG. The results indicated that parental support was negatively associated with DBIPCG. By contrast, self-efficacy in career decision-making did not predict DBIPCG directly. Instead, self-efficacy indirectly influenced DBIPCG, an effect mediated specifically by AFP rather than RFP, Furthermore, AFP was found to mediate the link between parental support and DBIPCG. These findings underscore the role of parental support in minimizing differences in career goal formation between generations and highlight the potentially adverse implications of AFP in exacerbating such discrepancies.

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