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Children's career expectations and parents' jobs: intergenerational (dis)continuities

dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Íris M.
dc.contributor.authorPorfeli, Erik J.
dc.contributor.authorTaveira, Maria do Céu
dc.contributor.authorLee, Bora
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T17:15:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T17:15:59Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-01
dc.description.abstractChildren develop career expectations as they increase self-knowledge and perceive societal affordances and barriers to life roles. Parents are powerful agents in the socialization of children to work, transmitting occupational concepts that influence children's career development. The authors used Gottfredson's (1981) and Holland's (1973) theories to test associations between children's career expectations and parents' jobs in terms of gender, prestige, and interest typology among same-sex and cross-sex child-parent dyads. Data were collected from 185 Portuguese children (51.4% boys, 48.6% girls; Mage = 10.41 years) from 2-parent families. Children reported their parents' jobs and shared personal career expectations. Correlation and linear regression results indicated that fathers' male-dominated jobs put boys at risk of gender-based circumscription of career expectations. An intergenerational cycle of prestige inequalities was also evidenced, although parents seemed to support children's exploration of various interest areas. Future research could explore these relationships across family structures. Practice should foster children's in-breadth career exploration and engage parents as key partners.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/cdq.12213pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85081228249
dc.identifier.issn0889-4019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36991
dc.identifier.wos000518675300005
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectCareer expectationspt_PT
dc.subjectChildhood career developmentpt_PT
dc.subjectFamilypt_PT
dc.subjectIntergenerational occupational transmissionpt_PT
dc.subjectParentspt_PT
dc.titleChildren's career expectations and parents' jobs: intergenerational (dis)continuitiespt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage77pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage63pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleCareer Development Quarterlypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume68pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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