This cross-sectional secondary analysis examines science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career interest among 9,732 STEM and non-STEM students and professionals in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Among 1,139 respondents whose policy-related adversity and gender-discrimination scores both exceeded the response midpoint, 72.3% reported interest scores averaging at least 5 ( somewhat agree ) on a seven-point scale. Within this subset, the mean interest was 4.56 when family support and perceived policy presence were both below 5 and 5.82 when both were at least 5. Adjusted analyses showed positive conditional associations for both supports; evidence for their interaction and an association with mentor presence remained inconclusive. The support contrast persisted across alternative thresholds and a restricted policy-adversity measure. Findings identify assessment priorities for career counseling and institutional support; this nonprobability study does not establish adaptation, intervention effects, or population prevalence.
Graduating health science students confront career indecision, which is significantly influenced by parental support. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms between the two variables among health science students. This study explored the multiple mediating roles of career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) and future work self in the relationship between career-related parental support (CRPS) and career indecision among health science students. Data were collected using online questionnaires from 1257 Chinese health science students. We found that 49.32% students experienced moderate-to-high career indecision. CRPS affected career indecision directly and indirectly through three pathways: (1) CDMSE; (2) future work self; and (3) CDMSE and future work self in serial, with a total mediation effect of 60.80%. Our findings emphasize focusing on health science students’ career indecision and valuing the supportive role of CRPS. In addition, targeted interventions to improve CDMSE and future work self may be conducive to alleviating students’ career indecision.
Individuals manage their careers under uncertainty and constrained opportunities. Drawing on career orientation theory, the Social Cognitive Model of Career Self-Management, and Career Construction Theory, this study examines how boundaryless and protean career orientations relate to career management behaviors (career planning and career learning) and career adaptability. Survey data were collected from 310 athletes competing within South Korea’s elite and semi-professional sport system and analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that protean career orientation was positively associated with career planning and career learning, whereas boundaryless career orientation was associated only with career planning. Both career management behaviors were positively related to career adaptability. The findings suggest that self-directed, values-based career orientations are more consistently associated with sustained engagement than openness to opportunities alone in regulated career environments. The study contributes to career development research by clarifying how career orientations relate to career management behaviors and adaptability under structural constraint.
In South Korea, where gendered caregiving expectations and rigid labor-market structures jointly constrain women’s ability to reconcile work and family, working women’s fertility intentions may be shaped by conditions in both domains. Drawing on the work–home resources model and conservation of resources theory, this study examined whether the associations between decent work and fertility intentions through work–family conflict (WFC) and work–family enrichment (WFE) were conditional on spousal support for work–family reconciliation. Using three-wave data from 300 Korean married working women, results revealed that decent work was associated with fertility intentions through WFE only when spousal support was high, whereas the conditional indirect effect through WFC was non-significant. These findings suggest that the extent to which resources generated through decent work contribute to fertility intentions is contingent on spousal support, underscoring the interdependence of work- and family-domain resources in shaping women’s fertility intentions.
Adolescence is a crucial period for individuals to make decisions that will impact their future. In this sense, the Career Construction Model of Adaptation (CCMA) can shed light on a better understanding of career development during adolescence by providing a framework for how positive career outcomes are achieved. The purpose of this study is to test the CCMA by examining the relationships between hope, career adaptability, career construction behaviors, and subjective well-being as indicators of adaptive readiness, adaptability resources, adapting responses, and adaptation results, respectively, in Turkish adolescents. The study was conducted with 626 adolescents (364 female, 262 male). The results of structural equation modeling revealed positive relationships between the dimensions of the model, as well as a significant sequential relationship from hope to subjective well-being, mediated by career adaptability and career construction behaviors. The findings highlight the importance of hope and career-related factors for the well-being of adolescents.
