The Effect of Maternal Parenting Style on Career Decision Self-Efficacy through the Mediation of Vocational School Adolescents Attribution Style in Career Decision Making

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Rose Mini Agoes Salim and Annisa Nurul Utami

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Career issues challenge more vocational school students in making effective career decision. This study aims to analyze the effect of maternal parenting style on career decision self-efficacy through the mediation of attribution style in career decision. A total of 851 participants of the 12th grade vocational school adolescents were involved. The instruments included Parental Authority Questionnaire, Assessment of Attributions for Career Decision Making, and Career Decision Self-Efficacy Short Form. Data analysis applied mediation regression through PROCESS Macro. Finding shows that maternal permissive parenting predicts optimistic attribution style in adolescents that could increase the degree of career decision self-efficacy. Consequently, proper maternal parenting is one step to help adolescents in gaining skills in the process of making most favorable career decisions

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