Ⅰ. Purpose of the study
This study intended to develop a children's career self-efficacy scale and investigated difference of children's career self-efficacy level depending on their sex, home environment, lcus of control, social environment, acad...
Ⅰ. Purpose of the study
This study intended to develop a children's career self-efficacy scale and investigated difference of children's career self-efficacy level depending on their sex, home environment, lcus of control, social environment, academic performance
Ⅱ.Method of the study
1. Instrument
In this study, an inventory was developed to assess the Korean elementary children's career self-efficacy.
In stage one, to structure the scale, free responces were used. The result was classified into eight groups.
In stage two, subjects were given a list of 12 male-dominated occupation and 12 female-dominated occupation. Beside of this creteria, the circumstance of work and educational requirements were considered. However, a very few occupations were available for selecting female-dominated occupations, since female college graduates have concentrated on very limited ranges of occupations until recently. The questionnaire consisted of two parts. The first Question was: How confident are you that you could successfully complete the educational and traning requirements necessary to enter these occupations? Second question was : How confident are you that you could successfully complete the job duties? Participant used 5 point scale(1 =not confident at all, 5=totally confident)to respond to each occupation.
The assessment of career self-efficacy was based on the procedure developed by Bandura and applied by Betz and Hackett to career research.
2. Subjects
The subject of this study were 630 children 6th grades of elementary schools(331 male and 299 female).
3. Procedure of the study
The relationships between the career self-efficacy scale and other variables(sex, home environment, locus of control, social environment, academic performance) were investigated.
Ⅲ.Results
Sex, home environment, locus of control, social environment, and academic performance accounted for a significant portion of variance.
1) Female participants expressed greater career self-efficacy in female-dominated occupations and male participants expressed greater career self-efficacy in male-dominated occupations.
2) Children who is high in home environment were found have a significant higher level of career self-efficacy than children in low.
3) Internal -external control is related to career self-efficacy with statistical significant: the one who is high in internal control, as compared with the one who is high in external control.
4) Children in Cities were found have a significant higher level of career self-efficacy than children in country .
5) Children who is high in academic performance were found have a significant higher level of career self-efficacy than children in low.
The result of this investigation showed similar patterns with previous research.