title: The contribution of perceived parental support to the career self-efficacy of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing adolescents.
abstract: The current study examined the contribution of different types of parental support to career self-efficacy among 11th and 12th grade students (N = 160): 66 students with hearing loss (23 hard of hearing and 43 deaf) and 94 hearing students. Participants completed the Career-Related Parent Support Scale, the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Self-Efficacy for the Management of Work-Family Conflict questionnaire. Different aspects of parental support predicted different types of career self-efficacies across the 3 groups. Differences among groups were also found when levels of parental support were compared. The deaf group perceived lower levels of parental career-related modeling and verbal encouragement in comparison with the hard-of-hearing students and higher levels of parental emotional support compared with the hearing participants. No significant differences were found among the research groups in career decision-making self-efficacy and self-efficacy in managing work-family conflict. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. freskori@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Rinat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Michael
authors.forename: Tova
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Most
authors.forename: Rachel Gali
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cinamon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002321:Career Choice; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology