Ari, Ahmet Emin; Eşkisu, Mustafa

This study examined the relationship between parental expectations, parental criticism, irrational career beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and career decision-making difficulties. The research sample comprised 470 high school students. The results indicated that parental expectations negatively influence career decision-making difficulties while positively correlating with parental criticism and irrational career beliefs. Furthermore, parental criticism was positively associated with both irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty. Both irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty positively correlated with career decision-making difficulties. Additionally, parental expectations had an indirect relationship with career decision-making difficulties through irrational career beliefs and intolerance of uncertainty. These findings suggest that the cognitive and emotional impacts of parental expectations and critical attitudes complicate the career decision-making process for adolescents. Thus, there is a pressing need to develop a more comprehensive intervention strategy that facilitates adolescents’ career decision-making within the framework of familial attitudes.

Ağirkan, Murat

The COVID-19 has had an impact on almost every aspect of life throughout the world. The quarantine, limited social life, and fear of contamination have triggered psychological symptoms in societies. The need for mental health services has increased, and online psychological counselling, which provides psychological help with no risk of infection, has become more popular. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 on psychological counselling services and compare the general situation of publications on online psychological counselling before and during the pandemic. For this purpose, 463 publications related to online psychological counselling in the Web of Science (WoS) database were examined. The results were discussed in the context of trends and differences before and during COVID-19.