다문화 청소년의 진로장벽 변화유형과 진로일치도 간 관계 = The Relationship Between Trajectories of Career Barriers and Career Congruence Among Multicultural Adolescents

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This study examined how trajectories of career barriers among multicultural adolescents influence career congruence after high school graduation. Using the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study (MAPS), 1,148 adolescents born to foreign mothers and Korean fathers were analyzed. SPSS 29.0 was used for descriptive, correlational, and group-difference analyses, and a Multivariate Growth Mixture Model (MGMM) was applied using Mplus 8.11 to assess the congruence between desired and actual career paths.
Three trajectory types emerged: Low-stable barriers type(50.8%), Increasing external barriers type(5.0%), and High-stable background barriers type(44.2%). Career congruence differed significantly across groups. The low-stable barriers type showed the highest rate of voluntary higher education enrollment (45.1%). The increasing external barriers type exhibited an overwhelmingly high rate of unemployed NEET (83.8%). The high-stable background barriers type showed the highest rates of voluntary employment (4.7%) and employment failure-higher education enrollment (24.4%), while also showing considerable unemployed NEET(33.6%). The findings imply that changes in career barriers over time may matter more than their initial levels in multicultural adolescents’ post-graduation decisions. This highlight the need for tailored career and vocational support that reflects the diverse career-barrier trajectories of multicultural adolescents.