How over-parenting impedes individual career exploration: a goal disengagement perspective

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Means, SD, correlations among variables (N = 536)

	M	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1 Gender	0.49	0.50	–
2 Age	20.29	1.94	− 0.09^*	–
3 Major	0.19	0.39	0.04	− 0.00	–
4 Over-parenting	2.70	0.71	− 0.07	− 0.07	0.03	(0.86)
5 Need for parental approval	3.37	0.68	0.01	− 0.06	− 0.04	0.30^**	(0.83)
6 Career exploration goal disengagement	2.83	0.64	0.01	− 0.02	− 0.00	0.39^**	0.18^**	(0.90)
7 Career exploration	3.62	0.58	0.01	− 0.01	− 0.11^**	− 0.19^**	0.10^*	− 0.36^**	(0.92)

M = Mean, SD = Standard deviation. Gender: 0 = male, 1 = female. Major: 0 = natural science, 1 = social science. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, Cronbach’s alpha in parentheses

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