• Journal of vocational education research
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.187-208
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to help prepare basic data which is required for married women's vocation career education through analyzing the influence of career barriers perceived by unemployed married women on career preparation behaviors. Research subjects of this study are following. First, how are career barriers perceived by unemployed married women? Second, how are the career preparation behaviors levels of unemployed married women? Third, how is the influence of career barriers perceived by unemployed married women on career preparation behaviors? The summary of this study results are following. First, married women perceive career barriers highly in 'restriction of employment', 'discrimination', and 'child rearing environment' among 7 subordinate factors. Second, married women's average on career preparation behavior level is 3.06. When comparing with preceeding researches which analyzed career preparation behaviors levels of university students, married women's career preparation behaviors levels are relatively higher. Third, there are negative correlations between career barriers and career preparation behaviors perceived by married women. Furthermore, 'preparation/skill lack' and 'child rearing environment' factors among 7 subordinate factors of career barriers brought out negative effects on career preparation behaviors. 'Restriction of employment' factor, however, gives positive effects on career preparation behaviors. It showed that 7 subordinate factors of career barriers include 14% of career preparation behaviors.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.45-59
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• 2014

Objectives: This study is designed to evaluate the influential factors of career decision-making self-efficacy and career identity by health science college students on their job preparation beaviors. Methods: The total 714 questionnaires were distributed to juniors and seniors of health science college, and the result was statistically analyzed through IBM SPSS statistics 20.0. Results: 1. There was no significant difference of job preparation behavior between male students and female students, and while seniors showed highly active job preparation behaviors, those who had high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement, and outgoing personality had highly active job preparation behaviors. 2. Students with high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement, outgoing personality, and high expected salaries showed high career decision-making self-efficacy level. 3. Students with high satisfaction level toward their major studies, high academic achievement and highly outgoing personality showed high level of career identity. 4. Subsidiary factors of career decision-making self-efficacy were collection of job information, goal setting, planning, and self-assessment, and all of them showed correlation with job preparation behaviors. 5. Among subsidiary factors of career decision-making self-efficacy, "self-understanding" and understanding of job information showed correlation with job preparation behaviors. Conclusion: For improvement on career decision-making self-efficacy and career identity of health science college students, individual support, psychological support, educational support and other supports regarding job employment to provide wide paths and methods for job preparation behaviors are essential, and through various job employment education program and graded counseling, job preparation behaviors shall be promoted as a great strategy.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.109-117
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• 2019

This study analyzed the effects of social support and career decision self-efficacy that can have effects on career based on career-interrupted women's perception on career preparation behaviors and mediating effects of the career decision self-efficacy. This study surveyed 227 career-interrupted women who participated in job training or registered for job searching in woman employment support organizations using a self-reported type questionnaire. The results are presented: First, social support was found to have a significant correlation with career decision self-efficacy and career preparation behavior. Second, discovered that emotional support as sub-factors of social support had a significant effect on career preparation behaviors. Third, discovered that goal setting and job information as sub-factors of career decision self-efficacy had a significant effect on career preparation behaviors. Fourth, career decision self-efficacy, there was a partial mediating effect between social support and career preparation behaviors. The results presented above suggested that in respect to career guidance for career-interrupted women, a focus should be given to psychological aspects than technological.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.36
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• pp.57-92
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• 2013

This study was to confirm the mechanism through which the career preparation behaviors are determined by identifying the structural relationship between influential variables on the career preparation behaviors of college students majoring in security service, and to offer proposals for promoting their career preparation behaviors based on the research results. With this aim, the study analyzes the effect of career decision-making autonomy, satisfaction with a major, and satisfaction with martial arts training on career identity, as well as the influential relationship concerning the effect of career identity on career preparation behaviors. For this, the study set as a population college students majoring in security service in the Gyeonggi region. As a subsequent sampling method, the study selected 300 students through purposive sampling. Then, excluding 13 copies of which the answers were insincere, 263 copies were used for data analysis. The detailed results include the following. First, regarding career decision-making autonomy, it was discovered to have a positive (+) effect on career decision-making self-efficacy. Second, whereas satisfaction with a major had no significant effect on career decision-making self-efficacy, it had a negative (-) effect on career preparation behaviors. Third, satisfaction with martial arts training was found to have a positive (+) effect on career decision-making self-efficacy. Fourth, career decision-making self-efficacy had a positive (+) effect on career preparation behaviors. Fifth, career identity had a negative (-) effect on career preparation behaviors.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.577-587
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• 2019

This study examined the effects of perceived career barriers and attribution style on career preparation behaviors of female college students' and the moderating effects of attribution style between career barriers and career preparation behaviors. For this purpose, career barrier test, preparation behavior, and attribution style test were conducted on 485 female college students. The collected data were statistically analyzed using SPSS 23.0. The findings are as follows. First, career perceived barriers by female college students had a negative effect on career preparation behaviors. Second, the more internal and controllable the attribution, the more active the career behaviors. Third, there was no moderating effect of attribution style between career barriers and career preparation behavior. Based on the above findings, implications for career education and career counseling for female college students, limitations of the study, and directions for further research were discussed.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.71-85
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• 2019

The importance of the NCS(National Competitiveness Standards) is growing as the job market shrinks and more institutions require hiring based on NCS. Of the ten domains of NCS', the most relevant one with the performance of all tasks is basic capability group. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of college students' basic capability group(communication capability, mathematical capability) on their career preparation behavior. In this study, we set up a process model to comprehend the effect of college students' basic capability group on career preparation behavior based on social cognitive career theory. For research model testing, 561 questionnaires were used for empirical analysis through structural equations modeling. Empirical analysis showed that communication capability positively influenced college students' career preparation behaviors for employment. But, mathematical capability don't influenced college students' career preparation behaviors for employment. Next, career self-efficacy and career outcome expectation each positively influenced college students' career preparation behaviors for employment. Also, interest in the major positively influenced college students' career preparation behaviors for employment. The academic implications are as follows: Career self-efficacy and interest in the major were important factors in the communication capability. The process of communication capability affecting career preparation behavior and interest in the major was explained through social cognitive career theory and self-efficacy. The practical implications are as follows: Administrative assistance should be provided to improve the career self-efficacy of college students.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.349-362
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• 2024

This study examines the relationship between social-emotional competence, major satisfaction, and career preparation behaviors for nursing students and identifies factors influencing career preparation behaviors. Data collection was conducted from December 5, 2023, to January 3, 2024, targeting 197 nursing college students (2nd to 4th year) from universities located in S City, C Province, and K Province. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 29.0 software, employing descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA (post hoc analysis using Scheffe), Pearson's correlation, and hierarchical multiple regression. The results indicated statistically significant positive correlations among nursing students' social-emotional competence, major satisfaction, and career preparation behaviors. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that factors influencing career preparation behaviors included year of study, participation in career-related programs, social-emotional competence, and major satisfaction, with these variables explaining 40.3% of the variance in career preparation behaviors. Based on the results, it is necessary to develop and apply programs to strengthen social-emotional competencies considering the academic year of nursing student. And customized career programs should be established to increase major satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.675-684
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to identify the influence of the GRIT of teenagers on their career preparation behaviors and verify whether there is a mediating effect between GRIT and the career preparation behaviors with a view to assisting such career preparation behaviors. For this study, an analysis was conducted using AMO 22.0 and SPSS Statistics 22.0, with 426 teenagers in general middle schools. The findings of the analysis were as follows. First, the GRIT of teenagers had a significant impact on social support and career preparation behaviors. Social support had a significant effect on career preparation behaviors, as well. Second, in the relationship between the GRIT of the teenagers and their career preparation behaviors, social support, and the sub-elements of the social supports, which are emotional support, information support, evaluatory support, and material support, all had mediating effects. These study findings showed that GRIT and social support were influential factors upon career preparation behaviors. Therefore, in order to promote career preparation behaviors among teenagers, it is necessary to provide social support in the family and school environments, and it is also helpful to enhance the GRIT, which is an individual trait.

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.62-71
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• 2011

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between professional nursing values and career preparation behaviors in senior nursing students. Method: The sample consisted of 199 nursing students before getting jobs who attended a nursing vocational college in Daegu and a nursing department of a university in J city of Chungcheongbuk-do. The data were collected from the first of May to the first of June in 2010. Results: The mean score was 106.76 for professional nursing values. The highest reported score of the nursing professional values domains was professionalism of nursing and was followed by nursing practical role and professional self-concept. The mean score was 42.66 for career preparation behavior. There was alow correlation between professional nursing values and career preparation behaviors. Conclusion: This finding suggests nursing students have differences from career preparation behaviors according to viewpoints about nursing as a professional job. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new curriculum and reinforce existing education for developing of professional nursing values. Moreover, nursing education institutes should set up educational objectives related to their general characteristics for improving career preparation behavior.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.359-367
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• 2017

This study aims to identify the factors that have effects on career preparation behaviors in college students studying Emergency Medical Technology and provide basic data for career guidance, career counselling and development of employment guidance programs. The subjects of the study were 450 who were randomly selected and conveniently sampled from the Departments of Emergency Medical Technology located in J Province, G Province, B and G Metropolitan Cities. The survey lasted from August 7th, 2017 to 9th of the same month after agreement on the survey was obtained from the targets and they were interviewed with the use of an organized questionnaire. 420 copies of the data collected were analysed with the use of SPSS ver. 14.0 for Window. As a result, it was discovered that career identity had a statistically significant positive effect on career preparation behaviors. Therefore, to facilitate preparation behaviors, they should be taught to have career identity, be motivated and supported to do more active career preparation behaviors.