The purpose of this research is to investigate how the self differentiation and the career decision-making affect the career preparation behaviors and to take advantage of it as the materials to improve the level of the career preparation behaviors of...
The purpose of this research is to investigate how the self differentiation and the career decision-making affect the career preparation behaviors and to take advantage of it as the materials to improve the level of the career preparation behaviors of university students. In order to achieve this goal, the research problems were set up as follows:
First, the self differentiation of university students will have a significant effect on the career preparation behaviors.
Second, the types of the career decision-making of university students will have a significant effect on the career preparation behaviors.
The subjects for the study were the students taking a liberal arts course at the university located in Wonju and Gangneung. The questionnaires of 170 male students and 137 female students are used to analyze the data.
The instruments used for this study were 「Self-Differentiation Scale」(Je, 1989) based on Bowen's theory of family systems, 「ACDM : Assessment of career Decision Making」developed by Harren(1984) and translated, revised, and complemented by Koh(1992), and 「Assessment of Career Preparati0n behaviors」developed by Kim(1997) with the two items from Kim(2002). The data were analyzed by Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis by using SPSS ver. 17.
The results of the analysis were as follows: First, the analysis of the effects of the self differentiation of the university students on the career preparation behaviors showed that among the sub-factors of the self differentiation, self-integrity has a significant effect on the career preparation behavior.
Second, the analysis of the effects of the types of the career decision-making on the career preparation behaviors showed that rational types affected the sub- factors (information collecting activities, practical efforts) and the overall of the career preparation behaviors positively, and that dependent types of the career decision-making negatively affected a sub-factor(the instrument preparation activities) and the overall of the career preparation behaviors.
Third, the analysis of relative effects of the self-differentiation and the career decision-making on the career preparation behaviors showed that the rational types of the career decision-making had significant effects on the career preparation behaviors only.
These results indicate that the self integrity of the self-differentiation and the rational types of the career decision making have significant effects on the career preparation behaviors of the university students. A high self integrity, as an indicator of maintaining their beliefs and life principles, and the decision-making in thoughtful and rational ways through the realistic assessment and information on the self and the situation imply that it will be achieved when the students have self-identities based on their own emotional independence.
Therefore, to improve the level of the career preparation behaviors at the on-the-spot counseling, the level of the students' self differentiation and the rational types of the career decision making should be improved. To achieve this, it is required that the parents help their children live with their own independent identities standing in the center of their lives, and that counseling the parents be accompanied.