The parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB): Psychometric properties in adolescents and young adults in the Italian context

Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parenta...

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Published in:Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) N.J.), 2023-06, Vol.42 (17), p.14376-14386
Main Authors: Parola, Anna, Fusco, Luca, Marcionetti, Jenny
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Career development
Career development planning
Careers
Data collection
Decision making
Economic aspects
Evaluation
Families & family life
Parents & parenting
Professional identity
Psychological aspects
Psychological tests
Psychology
Quantitative psychology
Questionnaires
Social Sciences
Taxonomy
Teenagers
Testing
University students
Young adults
Youth
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Summary:Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but the validation refers to the Swiss context. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB) in a sample of 323 adolescents and, after an item-adaption, in a sample of 374 university students in Italy. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed to support the three-dimensional structure of the original PCB. Moreover, associations between PCB and career decision-making difficulties were investigated. The results showed that the PCB is a useful instrument for measuring parental career-related behaviors also in the Italian context. Finally, the PCB dimensions were meaningfully related to career decision-making difficulties.
ISSN:1046-1310
1936-4733
DOI:10.1007/s12144-022-02764-1