Delinquency adolescent has a high rate of dropout from school discontinuity caused by poor scholastic performance, maladjustment to school and runaway from home. Therefore, they enter to the job marketearlier than normal adolescent in general. For the...
Delinquency adolescent has a high rate of dropout from school discontinuity caused by poor scholastic performance, maladjustment to school and runaway from home. Therefore, they enter to the job marketearlier than normal adolescent in general. For these reasons, the need for career guidance for the delinquency adolescent is very high.
And Career education and guidance for the delinquency adolescent are urgently called in order to reduce their re-delinquency rates and motivate them to have a goal in their life and career through a promotion of of career attitude development. But previous research and investigation on career problem of delinquency adolescent were not sufficient, the data for career guidance that would be appropriate in the characteristics of delinquency adolescent are demanded.
The purpose of this study is to find out the difference and characteristics of career attitude on the demand on career information, work value and career maturity between delinquency adolescent and normal adolescent. In order to perform the survey, two groups, 109 students from the Juvenile Protection Education Institution located in Kyeonggi province and 168 students from middle and high school in metropolitan area were selected for the comparative group study.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, significant differences of the demand on career information between delinquency adolescent and normal adolescent were showed in 6 questions out of 16 questions. Delinquency adolescent shows statistically significant low interest in items such as 'the personalized educational consultation', 'the classified employment-unemployment analysis', 'a successful way to professional man' and 'vocational aptitude and preference' and high level of interest in item 'the way to business owner' compare to normal adolescent. Second, work value of delinquency adolescent is lower in intrinsic value and higher in extrinsic value compare to normal adolescent. Third, this study shows that delinquency adolescent had a statistically significant lower career maturity status at the level of p<.05 and career decision scale in sub-items at the level of p<.001 than normal adolescent.
Based on the study stated as above, it shows that the development of career awareness of delinquency adolescent is retarded in general, which shows that career guidance for them is urgently called for. Therefore, career guidance for the delinquency adolescent should be provided to develop their career awareness and make them achieve their goalon their life and career, which could protect them from re-delinquency.
This study is useful in providing a preliminary data on the career guidance for delinquency adolescent.