EC Psychology and Psychiatry

Although choosing a career is a long process, young generations can get help from their parents. A vocation that is appropriate for a person makes the person very satisfied, but finding a proper job is stressful. Parents have primary roles in that procedure. Their style of raising the child affects the child's personality and attachment. People try to choose an occupation based on their skills, attitudes, characteristics, and values. The inoculating factor of those things is their parents and their way of raising the children. Parenting styles consist of four dimensions: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. All these dimensions shape the child's characteristics and selections in life. Some parents want to involve their children's career exploration by appropriately guiding them. There are some parental involvement programs, such as in Canada and Australia. In this paper, the main aim is to define these styles and how these styles affect people's life decisions. On the other hand, to understand the family effect on the child's career desires, there are examples from other countries in the paper.

Keywords: Parental Effects; Parenting Styles; Career Development; Career Desires

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