Affiliation:
1. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Abstract
In an individual's life, career self-efficacy plays an important role in creating the confidence level, abilities, and capabilities of a person in carrying out the tasks related to his or her career. Besides that, parents are crucial in shaping teenagers' career self-efficacy and emotional intelligence. Thus, this study examines the relationship between parenting style and emotional intelligence on career self-efficacy among Malaysian teenagers. This quantitative study involved 335 lower six students in Terengganu and was collected using purposive sampling. The data is analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. This study found that teenagers' parenting style, emotional intelligence and career self-efficacy levels were categorized as high. The authoritarian parenting style is the most dominant, followed by authoritative and permissive. Also, this study indicated that emotional intelligence and parenting style significantly correlate with career self-efficacy and then parenting style and emotional intelligence have a significantly affect career self-efficacy.