ABSTRACT
Career decision-making ability in adolescence plays a crucial role in future career development. We proposed a moderated mediation model to explore how parental support, interference, and lack of engagement influence career decision-making difficulties among high school students, testing the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy and the moderating role of resilience. Data from 1592 high school students in China were collected. Results showed that parental support negatively predicted career decision-making difficulties, whereas interference and lack of engagement positively predicted them. Career self-efficacy partially mediates the effects of parental support on career decision-making difficulties, but not interference and lack of engagement. The higher the level of resilience, the stronger the positive effect of parental support on students’ career self-efficacy. However, under conditions of high resilience, lack of engagement exerts a significant negative impact on career self-efficacy. In contrast, when resilience is low, it does not significantly affect students’ career self-efficacy.