The purpose of this study was to identify a few variables for realistic and meaningful career preparation behavior, considering career counseling for Korean university students. And this research examined the casual structural model that each variable...
The purpose of this study was to identify a few variables for realistic and meaningful career preparation behavior, considering career counseling for Korean university students. And this research examined the casual structural model that each variable have an effect on career preparation behavior. So this research model hypotheisized that parental career support and career competency would affect career muturity and career muturity would mediate in the relationship not only parental career support and career competency but also between career preparation behavior.
Subjects of the study were 282 university students in Daegu, Kyongbuk area. To ensure the reliability and validity of the question, technical statistics of the frequency, ratio, average, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis via PASW 18.0, item-total correlation, the totality, and the reliability analysis. The structural analysis via Amos 18.0 in the bootstrapping method was undertaken to perform the path analysis among the variables and to assess the suitability of the model.
The findings of the study led to the following conclusions.
First, a last hypothetical model was fitted to the empirical data.
Second, parental career support hadn’t effect on career preparation behavior directly, but career compentency had effect on career preparation behavior directly.
Third, the result of structural model show that career muturity has a full mediating effect on the relation parental career support and career preparation behavior.
Fourth, the result structural model show that career muturity has a part mediating effect on the relation between career compentency and career preparation behavior.
Therefore to maximize university students’ career preparation behavior it is needed to promote parental career support, career competency and career maturity.