Using a series of three studies, this research program had three objectives: (1) to develop a new measure to assess congruence between parents and their adolescents regarding career matters, (2) to test the cross-sectional associations between selected proximal parental contextual variables (i.e., parental career expectations and adolescent-parent career congruence) and career aspirations and career actions of planning and exploration within the social cognitive career choice model, and (3) to investigate the longitudinal relationships among the study variables. All studies were based on children from a collectivist cultural context (i.e., Indonesia). This research program has been structured around three empirical studies reported in three journal articles.