The purpose of this study is to develop a Christian Career Group Counseling Program for Youth to increase their self-identity and career maturity, and to examine the effectiveness of the program. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, ...
The purpose of this study is to develop a Christian Career Group Counseling Program for Youth to increase their self-identity and career maturity, and to examine the effectiveness of the program. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, an experimental group which was exposed to the program and a control group without exposure were compared. The program was administered over eight weekly sessions, each session lasting seventy minutes. The experimental group and the control group were organized with twelve students in each. For the purpose of data processing, SPSS 21.0 was used to analyze the statistical results. The Identity Scale(Park, 1996) and the Career Maturity Scale(Ihm, 2001) were adopted in the pre-test and the post-test. The treatment group exhibited a significant statistically increasing degree of self-identity and career maturity levels in comparison to the control group. The results of the study indicated the effectiveness of the Christian Career Group Counseling Program for Youth on increasing self-identity and career maturity levels.