This study aims to examine the effects of family strength and social support perceived by teenagers on career maturity. The subjects of this research are 297 high school second graders in C area, and the study method employed is a self-administered su...
This study aims to examine the effects of family strength and social support perceived by teenagers on career maturity. The subjects of this research are 297 high school second graders in C area, and the study method employed is a self-administered survey through direct visit. For data analysis, SPSS was utilized to perform frequency and percentage analysis in order to examine general characteristics. To verify the difference of family strength, social support, and career maturity according to the background variables, t-test and ANOVA and also post-hoc analysis were conducted. And to examine the effects of family strength and social support perceived by teenagers on career maturity, the study performed correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis by subfactors.
The results gained from this study are as written below:
First, regarding the difference of family strength perceived by teenagers according to the background variables was not significant by sex. Teenagers of academic high schools who get medium grades and are in higher economic level show higher perception than those who receive either higher or lower graders or are in either medium or lower economic level.
Second, regarding the difference of social support according to the background variables, the grade was not significant. And teenagers of academic high schools perceiving economic level highly show higher social support than female teenagers of specialized high schools perceiving economic level at the medium or low level.
Third, regarding the difference of career maturity according to the background variables, the grade was not significant. And female teenagers of academic high schools perceiving economic level highly show higher career maturity than male teenagers perceiving economic level at the medium or low level.
Fourth, among the subfactors of family members’ communication, family’s problem-solving ability, and social support among the subfactors of family strength perceived by teenagers, teachers’ support and friends’ support affected career maturity significantly.
According to the research results above, it is needed to make efforts to activate family members’ positive communication which is one of the crucial factors of teenagers’ career maturity, improve family’s problem-solving ability, and also enhance teachers’ and friends’ emotional support and information support at school. And it is needed to grope for measures to support teenagers and their families to participate together in the parent education related with career presently being conducted at school and the education and programs targeting teenagers which are separated now.