The purpose of this study is to find out differences of the career development status between blind college students and college students with low vision, and differences of those status between visually impaired students and sighted(non-visually impa...
The purpose of this study is to find out differences of the career development status between blind college students and college students with low vision, and differences of those status between visually impaired students and sighted(non-visually impaired) college students.
That is, it to investigate differences of the career development status according to gender, grade and degree of visual impairment of visually impaired and sighted college students.
The subjects of this study were 299 college students(143 visually impaired students and 156 sighted students) of the first semester in 1998.
The instrument used for this study was the Career Development Inventory developed by Super in 1981. It was translated in Korean and properly modified and supplemented for the subjects.
The data was processed by statistical program of SPSS Windows 7.0, that is, ANOVA and Scheffe verification
The main results showed:
First, on the level of career plan, when compared visually impaired college students with sighted ones, upper-class students, male students and visually impaired students have been statistically higher, and when compared blind college students with low vision students, male students have been higher than female students, and upper-class students have been statistically higher.
Second, on the level of career exploration, in comparison of visually impaired students with sighted ones, and blind students with low vision ones, male students have been higher than female students.
Third, on the level of career decision making, in comparison of visually impaired college students with sighted ones, female students have been higher than male students, and between blind students and low vision students, no difference has been shown in gender, grade, and degree of visual impairment.
Fourth, on the level of world of work information, in comparison of visually impaired students with sighted ones, female students have been higher than male students, in the case of blind and low vision ones, there was no difference in gender, grade and degree of visual impairment.
Fifth, on the level of career development attitudes, in comparison of sighted college students with visually impaired ones, and of blind ones with low vision ones, male students have been higher than female students; upper-class students have been higher than lower class ones.
Sixth, on the level of career development knowledge and skills, in compariwon of visually impaired college students with sighted ones, and blind students with low vision ones, female students have been higher than male students.
Seventh, on the level of career orientation total, in comparison of visually impaired college students with sighted ones, upper-class male students have been higher, in the case of degree of visual impairment male students have been higher, in the case of sighted ones female students have been higher and in the case blind and low vision students male students have been higher than female students.