Author(s)

Man Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Textile & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266071, China

Corresponding Author

Man Yang

ABSTRACT

Choosing a career is a necessary step that every young person about to enter society and the workplace must go through. It is also a crucial stage for college students during their transition from student to social person, thus attracting more attention and emphasis from society and the research community. The formation of college students' career values does not occur in a very short period of time. Stable values are bound to be influenced stably for a certain period of time. Since most college students live with their parents before entering the workforce, parents have a profound and continuous influence on their career cognition and initial career choice. This influence is often manifested in subtle ways, such as family expectations, career role models, and evaluations of career social status, and thus becomes an important source for college students' career-type cognition. From the perspective of family education, family upbringing methods are very important, as they shape the values, worldviews, and outlooks on the lives of children. Therefore, studying how parents' upbringing methods affect college students' career values and career orientations is of great significance.

KEYWORDS

Parental parenting style, Employment of college students, Educational Psychology

CITE THIS PAPER

Man Yang, The influence of authoritarian parenting style on children's career choice strategies. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 156-161. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060221.

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