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Family Communication Patterns and Their Roles to Grade 10 Filipino Students’ Career Decision Self-Efficacy

Adrian D. Valencia | Cristian Nowell B. Flores | Patricia Jean Ventosa

 

Abstract:

The study was conducted in response to the Philippine government’s call to alleviate the growing number of misfit graduates, unemployed citizens, and those indecisive in their future careers. The study undertook an interdisciplinary approach in adherence to the Social Cognitive Career Theory, Crites’ Model of Career Maturity, and Family Communication Patterns Theory and determined the significant relationships between the perceived family communication patterns in terms of their dimensions and career decision self-efficacy and the domains among Grade 10 Filipino students. Adopting a sequential-explanatory mixed method research design, the researchers obtained data through two researcher-made tests conducted with 321 respondents and interviewedeight participants from three chosen public secondary schools in Calamba City, Laguna. Data were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Findings revealed that most of the respondents were categorized under consensual family and most of them had a high level of career decision self-efficacy. For Grade 10 Filipino students from consensual families, findings revealed that both conversation and conformity orientations had significant relationships to career decision self-efficacy. Moreover, for Grade 10 Filipino students from protective and laissez-faire families, only conformity orientation showed a significant relationship to career decision self-efficacy. However, for those students from pluralistic families, findings showed no significant relationship between dimensions of family communication patterns and career decision self-efficacy. The self-appraisal domain was deemed to be the dominant domain that contributed to career decision self-efficacy. Moreover, parental support, gathering occupational information, problem solving and goal selection were the four dominant themes that emerged across all family types that contributed to career decision self-efficacy. Adoption of the study to different populations, use of other research methods, development of interventions and implementation of programs that aim to enhance the career decision self-efficacy of students were recommended.