Employability of students in vocational secondary school: Role of psychological capital and student-parent career congruences.

ABSTRACT: The main problem of vocational secondary school graduates is unemployment or inactive youth. Apart from developing their ability, external support, particularly from their parents, is also important for students in a collectivistic country like Indonesia. Therefore, this study aims to predict the role of psychological capital and perceived student-parent career congruences to the employability development of vocational secondary school students. Participants were 317 final-year students from rural private vocational secondary schools in Indonesia, 46.23% male and 31.76% female. They were 17-19 years old, mean age of 17.21 and standard deviation of 0.64. The data were analyzed by hierarchical regression analysis. We found that psychological capital and student-parent career congruences were

SUBMITTER: Sulistiobudi RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898065 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature