ABSTRACT
The research aims to find the correlation between parental attachment and career adaptability among grade 12 students. The data were collected from 272 grade 12 students from public and private senior high schools in Jakarta, Indonesia. Parental attachment was measured by the Inventory of Parents and Peer Attachment—Revised (father–mother version) (Armsden & Greenberg, 2009). Career adaptability was measured by the Career Adaptability Scale (Indianti, 2015). The results indicate that there is a positive significant relationship between parental attachment and career adaptability, which implies that the stronger the parental attachment, the greater the career adaptability. Research also found that attachment to the mother contributes more to career adaptability than attachment to the father. For future studies, an equal number of participants from public and private senior high schools should be recruited to ensure comparability.
