The utility value of an academic task can affect university students’ learning behavior and career choices. For collectivistic-oriented students, learning and career goals also matter to their families. Following expectancy-value theory, we assumed that families’ achievement-related expectations would affect collectivistic-oriented students’ utility value. We conducted a survey study with 154 international university students in Germany. We found a significant mediation effect of students’ distal utility value of their university coursework on the relationship between students’ collectivism, learning goal orientation, and motivation to follow family-oriented distal career goals, respectively. Practical implications for career counselors and university teachers are discussed.

学术任务的效用价值会影响大学生的学习行为和职业选择。对于以集体为导向的学生来说，学习和职业目标对他们的家庭也很重要。根据期望值理论，我们假设家庭与成就相关的期望会影响以集体为导向的学生的效用价值。我们对德国的154名国际大学生进行了调查研究。我们发现，学生在大学课程中的远端效用价值对学生的集体主义，学习目标取向和遵循家庭取向的远端职业目标的动机之间的关系具有显着的中介作用。讨论了对职业顾问和大学教师的实际意义。