Emerging Issues in Education and Family the Effect of Parental Social Support on Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy

Abstract

Every year senior high school students are confronted with the career decision associated with college majors. Many senior students are unsure of the selected college choices because of the lack of social support from parents. This study aims to determine the effect of parental support on career decision making self-efficacy (CDMSE) of the XII high school students. The hypotheses in this study is suspected that there is an effect of parental support on career decision making self-efficacy. The population in this study is a XII-grade high school student of SMA 1 Toraja Utara and SMA 2 Toraja Utara with sample number of 217 students in which there were 82,94% (180) female and 17,05% (37) male students, ranging from 16 to 19 years of age. Data was collected using a questionnaire compiled in Google form and distributed online. Data was analysed using the IBM SPSS statistics 23 software. Regression tests indicated that parental support had a significant impact on the career decision making self-efficacy with a value of t=10,311 (p<0.05). Parental social support influenced students’ high career decision making self-efficacy.