Longitudinal Relationships among Parental Emotional Support, Self-Understanding, and Career Planning in High School Students: An Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Model Analysis
Longitudinal study reveals that parental emotional support promotes career planning via self-understanding in high schoolers, highlighting the indirect role of family context.
Key Points
To examine the longitudinal relationships among parental emotional support, self-understanding, and career planning across three years of high school.
Analyzed waves 6 through 8 of the Korea Education Longitudinal Study 2013 (KELS2013), tracking students across grades 10 to 12 (N=5,666 after listwise deletion).
Modeled directional stability and reciprocal associations across time using an autoregressive cross-lagged panel design.
Autoregressive stability across all three high school years was statistically significant for parental emotional support, self-understanding, and career planning.
First-year parental emotional support significantly predicted second-year self-understanding, which in turn significantly predicted third-year career planning as an indirect effect.
The direct effect of first-year parental emotional support on third-year career planning was not statistically significant.