The aim of this study was to find out the effect of the career development program for middle school students' career maturity, academic motivation, and hope. Again, this study was intended to help students prepare for their career better by means of ...
The aim of this study was to find out the effect of the career development program for middle school students' career maturity, academic motivation, and hope. Again, this study was intended to help students prepare for their career better by means of making the most of this career development program in school.
To verify the hypotheses of this study, 64 subjects, third grade students in a middle school, Seoul, were sampled and divided into two groups: experimental group (32) and control group (32). Then, the experimental group was asked to participate in a total of 20 hours of group counseling program for career development. On the other hand, the control group was asked to participate only in a pre-test and post-test for a comparison with the experimental group.
CDP-M(career development program for middle school students), which was developed and completely revised by Jung Chul-Young (2004, 2005), Human Resources Development Service of Korea, was used for this study. Measurement tools used were the 'Career Maturity Test’ which was used by Im Eon, Jung Yoon-kyung, and Sang Kyung-Ah(2001), 'Academic Motivation Test’, which was translated by Im Eun-Mi(1998), and ‘Hope Scale Test’, which was originally designed by Kang Yi-Young(2002) and adapted by Kim Taek-Ho(2004). After two groups participated in pre-test and post-test, data collected were processed statistically with SPSS ver12.0.
The results of this study were as following;
First, the experiment group who participated in the career development program got higher scores in total attitude, total competence, and total behavior, which are the sub factors of Career Maturity Scale than the control group. This proved that the career development program had a positive effect on Career Maturity Scale of the experimental group.
Second, after the counseling, the amotivational area of the experimental group was reduced, but their social and autonomous motivations increased. This proved the career development program had a positive effect on Academic Motivation Scale of the experimental group.
Third, the career development program was effective for making Hope Level of the experimental group higher and increasing Pathway Thinking Factor and Agency Thinking Factor. This proved the career development program had a positive effect on Hope Level of the experimental group.
Fourth, after analyzing the correlation between middle school students' career maturity and learning motivation, it was found that the career maturity and the motivation had the negative correlation, but the career maturity had the positive correlation with the autonomous and social motivations. It proved the increased career motivation not only prevented students' amotivational status but also increased their autonomous and social motivations. In conclusion, middle school students' career maturity and learning motivation had the meaningful positive correlation.
Fifth, after analyzing the correlation between middle school students' career maturity and Hope Level, it was found that the career maturity had the positive correlation with Hope Level, Pathway Thinking Factor, and Agency Thinking Factor. This proved that the increased career maturity made the sub factor of Hope and Hope itself increased. In conclusion, the career maturity and Hope had the meaningful positive correlation.
In the above results, it was verified that the career development program was effective for increasing middle school students' career maturity, learning motivation, and Hope Level.
This proved the career development program was helpful for middle school students in need of career exploration to plan their career and understand themselves better. In addition, this program was effective for making students' autonomous and social motivations, which are the sub factors of Learning Motivation, stronger. It led students to feel worthwhile while studying and made it possible for them to achieve challenging assignments and keep trying for their future dreams. This kind of process was so effective for reducing a motivation that students could go to school more actively.
Lastly, the career development program made students' Hope Level higher. It led students to keep their hope about achieving their goals up and have confidence in finding the ways to achieve them. In conclusion, the career development program let students know how to deal with difficulties better.