This paper extends discussion of parental influence on adolescent’s occupational intentions by including parents’ socioeconomic status and by arguing that entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) as instrumental to both entrepreneurial intention and employment intention. The adolescents’ social milieu is proxied by their parents’ occupational type and formal education and income levels, which adds their social and business networks, schoolteachers and fellow students to the adolescents’ process of forming either entrepreneurial or employment intention. We ask whether adolescents’ occupational intentions depend on the interaction of their social context and specific personal cognitions (namely ESE, psychological capital, hubris, academic performance, and gender). Using fsQCA and 203 adolescent-parent dyads, we find that employed parents, rather than entrepreneur parents, are more consistently associated with adolescents’ entrepreneurial intention. The cognitive conditions interact synergistically and substitutively as core conditions to influence entrepreneurial intention (or inversely employment intention). Low self-assessment of academic performance is a core condition for high entrepreneurial intention, and both sexes select their occupational type according to bespoke configurations of their causal conditions, with implications for educational policy, and further research.

本文通过包括父母的社会经济地位并论证创业自我效能 （ESE） 对创业意愿和就业意愿都有影响，扩展了对父母对青少年职业意愿影响的讨论。青少年的社会环境由他们父母的职业类型、正规教育和收入水平所代表，这增加了他们的社会和商业网络、学校教师和同学，这些都加入了青少年形成创业或就业意愿的过程。我们询问青少年的职业意图是否取决于他们的社会环境和特定的个人认知（即 ESE、心理资本、傲慢、学习成绩和性别）的相互作用。使用 fsQCA 和 203 个青少年父母二元组，我们发现在职父母而不是企业家父母与青少年的创业意图更一致。认知条件作为影响创业意愿（或相反的就业意愿）的核心条件协同和间接地相互作用。对学习成绩的低自我评估是高创业意愿的核心条件，两性都根据其因果条件的定制配置来选择他们的职业类型，这对教育政策和进一步研究有影响。