02214nam a22002057a 4500 20240116121326.0 240116b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0022-0167 Zhou, Nan Too-much-of-a-good-thing? The curvilinear associations among Chinese adolescents’ perceived parental career expectation, internalizing problems, and career development : A three-wave longitudinal study (Journal Article) Washington DC : American Psychological Association , 2023 605-618p. The Journal of Counseling Psychology , Volume 70: Number 5, October 2023 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: Based on three-annual-wave data from 3,196 Chinese adolescents across the high school years (Mage = 15.55 years old, SD = .44; 52.8% girls at Wave 1, 10th grade), this study examined the curvilinear associations between adolescents’ perceived parental career expectation and their career adaptability and ambivalence and also tested the potential mediating role of adolescents’ internalizing problems in such associations. Results showed that, after controlling for a set of critical covariates and the baseline levels of outcome variables, there was an inverted U-shaped curvilinear association between adolescents’ perceived parental career expectation at Wave 1 and their career adaptability at Wave 3 via adolescent internalizing problems at Wave 2. Similarly, a U-shaped curvilinear association also was identified between adolescents’ perceived parental career expectation at Wave 1 and their career ambivalence at Wave 3 via their internalizing problems at Wave 2. These findings suggest that adolescents’ perceived parental career expectation may have “too-much-of-a-good-thing” effects on their career development. Implications for future research and practice were discussed. Adolescent career Development| Adolescent internalizing problems| Chinese| Curvilinear Associations| Adolescents' perceived career expectation Meng, Haoran| Cao, Hongjian| Liang, Yue https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000687 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2024-01-16 0 2024-01-16 00:00:00 2024-01-16 PER 45224 45223