Parental Influence In Nursing Students

Katherine Nicole A. Rebolos

English 27

Andre Dominic

A Study On The Parental Influence And Their Career Choices Among Xavier University College of Nursing Students

Parental influence among students

In the Philippine society, parents are deemed to be a social role that includes being a great impact to the lives of their children. Filipinos can associate a family as a vital part to one’s social world. This is one of the highlighted traits that a Filipino can have. (Ochoa & Torre, 2014). In choosing one’s career as a child one factor that might be in great influence is the parents. However, it may not always affect the child in a positive way. Hence, this study is a descriptive study about the Parental influence can negatively affect career choices

2014). That also means that in a Filipino family, one may be affected even though they are at legal age because of the background they have. Also, within these age bracket, it is the time where they are able to choose what their career choice is. On the other hand, Knviton (2014) also said that, fathers influence the eldest child more and the mothers influence the youngest child more. That means, influence on children differ on their age and their birth order. However, if one parent is away, a child may have a difficulty whenever this happens especially, if one will cease. Second is the gender, females have more influence on parental power compared to the males. Also, they would likely to choose a career choice that would be more appropriate for the female gender. This is because they are already exposed to gender-sepcific roles in their households (Jungen, K., 2008). This is also one of the reasons why most of the nursing students are girls because it is likely to be more of a feminine role. That will now narrow down the choices that the female wants especially on the other occupations that usually males take such as

Children who are closer to their parents are usually have more impact to them if their parents want another career choice and feel burdened they choose something that is not in their choices. On the other hand, the children who are not really close or have less emotional attachment will choose the career that they want regardless of the approval (Li & Kerpelman, 2007). Therefore, influences depends on how the child is able to connect with the parents and how the perceive their decisions as important. The factors presented above also have a role that can negatively affect a child in their career choice and their performance in general. The influences of parents on children are sometimes not noticed by the parents themselves. It is because they are more likely to act like their roles as parents and they must be able to know the importance to understand and communicate with their children (Jungen, K., 2008). This is one of the reasons why parents have a hard time conveying their intentions since they do not usually notice how big their impact is in their lives. With that, they should be able to know how to adapt to these kinds of situations in order to convey a positive role model to