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Curiosity and confidence serve as the core dimensions of adolescent career adaptability over time, with parent and teacher support strongly linked to career confidence, while peer support is closely related to career curiosity. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To investigate the longitudinal network structure of career adaptability dimensions and evaluate how perceived collective contributions to career efficacy from parents, teachers, and peers associate with these dimensions over time.

September 2, 2026Journal of Career Assessment

Adolescents’ Career Adaptability and Their Perceived Collective Contributions to Career Efficacy Over Time: A Network Analysis

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YZYue Zhao HCHongjian Cao HXHui Xu

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Longitudinal study reveals distinct social influences on career curiosity and confidence in high schoolers, suggesting targeted family and school interventions enhance adaptability.

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To investigate the longitudinal network structure of career adaptability dimensions and evaluate how perceived collective contributions to career efficacy from parents, teachers, and peers associate with these dimensions over time.
Tracked 1,952 Chinese adolescents (mean age 15.54 ± 0.54 years; 43.9% male) across three annual longitudinal waves during senior high school.
Applied longitudinal network analysis to model the interactions among career adaptability facets and source-specific collective contributions to career efficacy (CCCE).
Career curiosity and career confidence consistently occupied central, core positions within the adaptability network across all three time points.
Perceived CCCE from parents and teachers demonstrated significantly stronger network connections to career confidence compared to CCCE from peers.
Perceived peer CCCE was selectively and strongly linked to career curiosity across the study period.

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Zhao et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e29ec562ede874ec6e12 https://doi.org/10.1177/10690727261485959

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September 2, 2026Journal of Career Assessment

Adolescents’ Career Adaptability and Their Perceived Collective Contributions to Career Efficacy Over Time: A Network Analysis

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Authors

YZYue Zhao HCHongjian Cao HXHui Xu

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Overview

Longitudinal study reveals distinct social influences on career curiosity and confidence in high schoolers, suggesting targeted family and school interventions enhance adaptability.

Key Points

To investigate the longitudinal network structure of career adaptability dimensions and evaluate how perceived collective contributions to career efficacy from parents, teachers, and peers associate with these dimensions over time.
Tracked 1,952 Chinese adolescents (mean age 15.54 ± 0.54 years; 43.9% male) across three annual longitudinal waves during senior high school.
Applied longitudinal network analysis to model the interactions among career adaptability facets and source-specific collective contributions to career efficacy (CCCE).
Career curiosity and career confidence consistently occupied central, core positions within the adaptability network across all three time points.
Perceived CCCE from parents and teachers demonstrated significantly stronger network connections to career confidence compared to CCCE from peers.
Perceived peer CCCE was selectively and strongly linked to career curiosity across the study period.

Cite This Study

Zhao et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e29ec562ede874ec6e12 https://doi.org/10.1177/10690727261485959

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