title: Association of parental self-esteem and expectations with adolescents' anxiety about career and education.
abstract: The views of students in their last year of high school on the effects of parental expectations on students' anxiety about education and a career were studied with 214 boys and girls from six single-sex high schools. Participants were asked to reply to two questionnaires, the Educational and Career Anxiety Questionnaire and the Parent's Self-esteem and Expectancy Questionnaire as well as to respond to a personal informational form. Analysis yielded negative significance for relations between parental self-esteem and expectations and students' anxiety about education and career. Moreover, the study showed that adolescent girls had significantly higher self-esteem than boys. In addition, comparing adolescents' views by their fathers' education showed that fathers with high education were more likely to have children with high parental self-esteem and rational expectations and lower anxiety about education and careers than those whose fathers had only primary education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Niavaran, Araj, P.O. Box 19395-6558, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed-Hossein
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Salimi
authors.forename: Seyed-Mahmoud
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mirzamani
authors.forename: Mostafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shahiri-Tabarestani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D002321:Career Choice; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires