The aim of this study was to investigate the affect parental support had on the degree to which a male high school student prepared his career. In this way guidance could be provided for male high school students seeking to make rational career decisi...
The aim of this study was to investigate the affect parental support had on the degree to which a male high school student prepared his career. In this way guidance could be provided for male high school students seeking to make rational career decisions for students and for parents in upbringing their children. The study was carried out by examining the variables which affect the career preparing behavior of the students.
In order to identify the influences of career preparing behavior (i.e. dependent variable) of male high school students this study set up two independent variables, the parental support perceived by high school students and the tendency to perfectionism of a student which were based on the outcomes of previous researches regarding career preparation behavior. This paper employed a questionnaire to survey 335 male high school students who were in the 1stand2nd grade of a high school in the Seoul area based on the SPSS17.0 program with Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of survey are as follows.
Firstly, the fact that parental support perceived by high school students and the tendency to perfectionism of a student influences the degree of career preparation behavior proved that there was a significant correlation between parental support and the degree of career preparation behavior. Additionally, there was a partial correlation both negative and positive between the degree of career preparing behavior and the tendency to perfectionism of students.
Secondly, the influence of parental support and the degree of career preparation behavior of high school students was considerably influenced by sub-factors of parental support which were career related modeling and emotional support whereas the variables related to verbal support showed negative correlations. Furthermore, instrumental help was not influenced by any correlation to all the sub-factors. These findings indicated that among the independent variables of parental support perceived by high school students of which an increase in the level of career related modeling and emotional support lead to a greater degree of career preparation.
Thirdly, the influence of the tendency to perfectionism and the degree of career preparing behavior of high school students markedly affect all sub-factors of the tendency to perfectionism specifically, one of sub-factors in the personal standards had a positive impact on career seeking, activity of gathering information, working experience, preparing to work and so. Among the sub-factors of the tendency to perfectionism such as anxiety of making mistakes, expectations of parents and organized variables influenced any correlation to all the sub-factors. On the other hand, the precariousness of performance of one other sub-factors of the tendency to perfectionism showed a significant negative correlation to career seeking, activity of working experience, and the preparing to work. Moreover, one other sub-factor of parental blaming of children was influenced by a negative impact only on the activity of gathering information. These findings showed that the career preparing behavior of male high school students are influenced by the sub-factors of tendency to perfectionism partially opposed-impacts and especially, the career seeking, the activity of gathering information, working experience, preparing to work for students were remarkably influenced by the personal standards of the sub-factors in tendency to perfectionism compared to other sub-factors.
In conclusion of this study, the dependent variable for career preparing behavior of male high school students is influenced by the independent variable of parental support and the tendency to perfectionism of students. In this context, there should be an increase in the degree of the parental support perceived by high school students when students practically prepare their career and also, parents should be aware of the value of role modeling for their children who are male high school students such as a opportunity to have a vicarious experience, emotional support, and attention to positively and sufficiently in order to reducing difficulties of students. Further, the sub-factors of the tendency to perfectionism especially, the variable of precariousness for performance which cause lower confidence and raising anxiety when students prepare the activity of working experience and preparing to work. Therefore, a student who has a tendency to perfectionism should be understood and thereby adjust their psychological inner-factors. Moreover, as it was previously mentioned that all variables such as the career seeking, the activity of gathering information, working experience and preparing to work for students were remarkably influenced by according to the personal standards of the sub-factors in tendency to perfectionism. This means, when an individual makes high own standards which is a crucially significant factor compared to other sub-factors or variables while male high school students prepare their careers Therefore, the importance between the establishment of individual criteria and rational choice should be considered an important factor.