The purpose of this study is to suggest the concept of career to the rural elementary school children on the stage of awareness of career education, to help them to find out earlier their interest, aptitude, talent, etc, and also to help them to raise...
The purpose of this study is to suggest the concept of career to the rural elementary school children on the stage of awareness of career education, to help them to find out earlier their interest, aptitude, talent, etc, and also to help them to raise their ability of managing the future society by providing wide information and knowledge about career of modern society. According to the need of this study, it is intended to find out how the activities through career group-counselling program of parents and children affect on career maturity and well- being of elementary school children.
The concrete hypotheses to achieve the purpose of this study are as follows:
First, the experimental group participated in career group-counseling program of parents and children will score significantly higher in career maturity score than the control group of only children participated in the program. Second, the experimental group participated in career group-counseling program of parents and children will be meaningfully higher score in welling-being part than the control group participated in the program.
Career-group counselling program which will be used in this study is developed and committed by the researcher based on pre-experiment. I used 『Elementary.Secondary Career Maturity Test』 published by Kangwondo Education Research Institute to measure the effects and the career maturity. In addition, to research the degree of psychological well-being, this study valuated the general degree of psychological well-being of daily life using Campbell, Converse, and Rodgers' 「Index of Well- Being」 adapted by Han Jeong-won. Subjects of this study are fourth grade school children and their parents of S-Elementary School in ○○ Myun, Masan, Gyeongnam for experimental group and fourth grade school children of S-Elementary school in ○○ Myun for control gruop. The term of the study is from February to April in 2004 for about three months.
To summarize, the results are as follows:
First, the career maturity of the experimental group participated in career group-counseling program of parents and children is more meaningful in career maturity score than the control group of just children. This result shows the attendance of parents with their children raise the career maturity of children and affect their well-being positively.
Second, this program has a meaningful effect upon career maturity attitude and also has an positive effect on recognizing proper career to their own.
Third, the elementary school children of the experimental group trained by this program had higher score on four sub-factors of career maturity than before : career appreciating ability, self appreciating ability, career decision ability, intention decision ability.
Fourth, well-being of the experimental group was improved by the communication between parents and children and the interaction between them.
These improvement of the career maturity will work on one's career decision effectively and reasonably by the career type being changed rightly.