Babamın işiyle ilgili deneyimleri benim ileride ne iş yapacağımı belirler mi? babanın algılanmış iş güvencesizliğinin, kariyer seçimi sırasında risk alma eğilimindeki rolü

Perceived paternal job insecurity is one of the family variables that influences career choice process of adolescents. However, so far, extant studies have not examined its role in career development. The main goal of the study was to examine the association between perceived paternal job insecurity and adolescents' risk-taking tendency in career choice (RIC). Thus, we developed and tested a model which investigates the role of perceived paternal job insecurity on adolescents' RIC through core self-evaluation (CSE). We administered self-report measures to 528 Turkish high school students (278 girls and 250 boys) to assess their level of perceived paternal job insecurity, RIC, CSE and intolerance of uncertainty (IU). The results indicated gender specific mediation effect of CSE on the relationship of perceived paternal job insecurity with RIC such that perceived paternal job insecurity was negatively associated with CSE, which in turn, associated with lower levels of RIC only for girls. Contrary to girls, perceived paternal job insecurity had a direct negative association with RIC for boys. Moreover, although the results indicated an insignificant moderating role of IU in the association between perceived paternal job insecurity and CSE for both girls and boys, IU moderated the relationship between CSE and RIC among girls. Girls with low and mean level of IU were more willing to take risk in their career choice if they had high CSE whereas they were more reluctant to take risk in their career choice if they had low CSE. These gender specific findings were discussed in the light of gender role socialization in Turkey and similar research findings.