Children develop career expectations as they increase self‐knowledge and perceive societal affordances and barriers to life roles. Parents are powerful agents in the socialization of children to work, transmitting occupational concepts that influence children's career development. The authors used Gottfredson's (1981) and Holland's (1973) theories to test associations between children's career expectations and parents' jobs in terms of gender, prestige, and interest typology among same‐sex and cross‐sex child‐parent dyads. Data were collected from 185 Portuguese children (51.4% boys, 48.6% girls; M_age = 10.41 years) from 2‐parent families. Children reported their parents' jobs and shared personal career expectations. Correlation and linear regression results indicated that fathers' male‐dominated jobs put boys at risk of gender‐based circumscription of career expectations. An intergenerational cycle of prestige inequalities was also evidenced, although parents seemed to support children's exploration of various interest areas. Future research could explore these relationships across family structures. Practice should foster children's in‐breadth career exploration and engage parents as key partners.

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儿童的职业期望与父母的工作：代际（Dis）连续性

当孩子增加自我认知并感知社会能力和生活角色障碍时，他们会发展他们的职业期望。父母是儿童工作社会化的有力推动者，传递着影响儿童职业发展的职业观念。作者使用Gottfredson（1981）和Holland（1973）的理论来检验儿童的职业期望与父母的工作之间在性别，声望和同性和跨性别儿童父母双性恋中的兴趣类型方面的关联。数据来自185个葡萄牙儿童（男51.4％，女48.6％；M_年龄= 10.41岁），来自2个父母家庭。孩子们报告了父母的工作并分享了个人的职业期望。相关性和线性回归结果表明，父亲在男性中占主导地位的工作使男孩处于基于性别限制职业期望的风险中。虽然父母似乎支持孩子探索各个兴趣领域，但也证明了威望不平等的代际循环。未来的研究可能会探索家庭结构之间的这些关系。练习应促进孩子们的深入职业探索，并让父母成为主要伴侣。