Study of Career Decision Self-Efficacy in Relation to their Parental Encouragement among Senior Secondary Students of Angul District, Odisha

Abstract

Career development is one of the fundamental aspects of human development and is considered as an important dimension of psychosocial development. The concept of a career and career guidance is seen to be highly influenced by cultural, social and economic factors. To a large extent, one’s career decision determines how time will be spent, what aptitude and values will be adopted, who will be chosen as friends, who will be the life partner, where one will reside and what type of family living will be adopted. While career decision is this much important, it is often made by our teenagers and youth with little thought, guidance or planning. Recent career management paradigms advocate that career development is a process that is the outcome of a complex interaction between the individual and the environment. It is an on-going process that needs to be understood in the broader context of the society that the individual is placed in (Arulmani & Nag-Arulmani, 2004).