Author(s)

Song Xiaoli ¹, Wang Fengxia ¹, Liang Mengyao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Jiangsu Maritime Institute, Nanjing, China

Corresponding Author

Wang Fengxia

ABSTRACT

Under the dual influence of the epidemic and employment pressure, vocational college students are more difficult to choose careers, which have attracted much attention. Through research, it is found that the career choices of vocational college students are greatly influenced by their parents. This influence mainly includes three aspects: the father's occupation and education level; the mother's occupation and education level; the harmonious degree of parental relationship. In-depth research has found that the parents of higher vocational college students are generally less educated, and most of them are individual practitioners, so it is difficult to effectively support the career choices of higher vocational college students. The degree of harmony of parental relationship of higher vocational college students has a greater impact on occupational orientation. Students with harmonious parental relationship generally choose careers that are beneficial to others. Under the condition of unharmonious parental relationship, college students generally choose the opposite direction and show more dissatisfaction, not confidence and anxiety.

KEYWORDS

Career choice, Parental complex, Vocational college students

CITE THIS PAPER

Song Xiaoli, Wang Fengxia, Liang Mengyao, Parental Complex of Vocational College Students' Career Choices. Applied & Educational Psychology (2022) Vol. 3: 56-62. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2022.030508.

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