Vocational identity statuses of university students in the Chinese context: Parental career behavior and traditional cultural belief profiles

Abstract

The presentation will focus on a study that evaluated the parental career behavior and cultural beliefs profiles of six Vocational Identity statuses (VI) in the Chinese context with a sample of 739 university students. The results of the study suggested that the six VI statuses are well differentiated in both variables. The contextual and cultural profiles added to the understanding of VI statuses in the Chinese context in addition to their psychosocial profiles founded earlier by the same authors. Theoretical and practice implications of these findings will be discussed in detail.