The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of happiness of undergraduate students on their rational career decision-making. A total of 301 college students including 141 males and 160 females at a university located in the Daegu city p...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of happiness of undergraduate students on their rational career decision-making. A total of 301 college students including 141 males and 160 females at a university located in the Daegu city participated in this research. The measures used were the scales assessing positive emotion, engagement, positive interpersonal relations, accomplishment and meaning of life. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson’s product-moment correlation and multiple regression analysis.
The results of the study are as follows. First, it was revealed that positive emotion, engagement, accomplishment and meaning of life which are sub-variables for happiness of college students had a significant effect on student’s rational career decision-making, which means there was a significant positive correlation.
Second, the results showed that happiness consisting of positive emotion, engagement, positive interpersonal relations, accomplishment and meaning of life, sub-variables of happiness, had an impact on student’s rational career decision-making, which means happy students can make a rational decision on their career.
Third, it was found that meaning of life, positive emotion, positive interpersonal relations, engagement and accomplishment in order had a direct influence on student’s rational career decision-making. In addition, when it comes to positive interpersonal relations, it was revealed that the more students had positive interpersonal relations, the less they made rational career decisions.