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“How do Mainland Chinese parents influence their fifth‐grade children’s career knowledge and aspirations? (Liu, McMahon & Watson, 2015).” This research project focused on an idea that currently has little information known about it – the correlation between parental influence and a 5th grade child’s interest in career development. The proposed question of how parents influence their child’s interest falls in line with the purpose of this paper and is a logical extension. “This study used interpretative phenomenological analysis to examine how Mainland Chinese parents influence the career development of their 5th‐grade children. Six superordinate themes were identified from both the children’s and the parents’ perspectives: responding to career curiosity, influence on career gender stereotypes, emphasizing the importance of education, encouraging independent career decision making, providing opportunities for career interest development, and mothers as career role models (Liu, McMahon & Watson, 2015).”
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