The long arm of job insecurity: Its impact on career-specific parenting behaviors and youths’ career self-efficacy

an article by Xiuxi Zhao (Center for Creative Leadership, USA) and Vivien K.G. Lim and Thompson S.H. Teo (National University of Singapore) published in Journal of Vocational Behavior Volume 80 Issue 3 (June 2012)

Abstract

Applying a multiple-mediator model, we examine the mediating effect of three types of career-specific parenting behaviors: lack of engagement, support, and interference, on the relationship between paternal job insecurity and youths’ career self-efficacy.

Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students and their fathers. Results of the full sample analysis showed that paternal job insecurity was positively related to lack of engagement and negatively related to support. The relationship between paternal job insecurity and interference was not significant. Sub sample analysis showed that the relationship between paternal job insecurity and career self-efficacy was mediated by lack of engagement for sons and mediated by support for daughters.

Highlights

• Paternal job insecurity is positively related to lack of engagement and negatively related to support.
• The relationship between paternal job insecurity and career self-efficacy is mediated by lack of engagement for sons.
• The relationship between paternal job insecurity and career self-efficacy is mediated by support for daughters.

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