PARENTING STYLE, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND CAREER SELF-EFFICACY OF TEENAGERS
Abstract
This study aimed to examine the correlation between parenting style and emotional intelligence
with career self-efficacy as well as predictive factors on teenager’s career self-efficacy in Terengganu,
Malaysia. A total of 335 Lower Six students from schools in Terengganu were selected using purposeful
sampling method as the respondents in this study. This study was conducted using a survey method with
three sets of questionnaires, namely Parenting Style Scale by Baumrind (1996), Scale of Emotional
Intelligence by Schuttee et al. (1998), and Scale Career Self Efficacy-Simplified by Betz et al. (1996). The
data were analyzed descriptively using mean and percentage alongside the inference analysis that was based
on correlation and regression. The findings of this study indicated that there was a significant positive
correlation between parenting style and emotional intelligence with teenagers’ career self-efficacy. The
regression analysis showed that parenting style (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive) and emotional
intelligence were the contributing factors to teenagers’ career self-efficacy. As a conclusion, parenting style
and emotional intelligence need to be improved as they are both positively correlated with teenagers’ career
self-efficacy. Further studies are required to strengthen the findings of this study.