• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.439-447
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to analyze employment preparation behavior, career decision making self efficacy, and career identity by the subjects' general characteristics, and determine the relationship among them. The survey was conducted to 243 dental hygiene students in college located in South Korea, analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, and multiple linear regression. There was significant difference of employment preparation behaviors between male and female. Career decision making self efficacy was higher with increasing age and their credit, but showed the opposite trend in expected salary. Career identity was related to credit and the satisfaction in major, students dissatisfied with major recorded higher sense of career identity. The result of multiple linear regression showed the career decision making self efficacy affect the employment preparation behavior, the explanatory power was about 20%. It will be necessary encourage the students social advance in many different fields, research to improve the relationship between career decision making self efficacy and satisfaction in major of dental hygiene students.

• 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 Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.263-283
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• 2023

In this study, the factors of major satisfaction(curricular satisfaction, class satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, cognitive satisfaction, and general satisfaction factors) which influence the employment preparation behaviors were identified by conducting a survey of female college students of the department of library and information science, and whether the feeling of employment efficacy had a moderating effect on the relationship between the the major satisfaction and the employment preparation behaviors were verified. The research results are as follows. First, curricular satisfaction(C.R.=3.847, p<0.001), class satisfaction(C.R.=3.244, p<0.01), relationship satisfaction(C.R.=3.045, p<0.01), and cognitive satisfaction(C.R.=2.464, p<0.05) factors turned out to have a significant positive(+) effect on the employment behaviors of female college students of the department of library and information science. Second, the moderating effect between the high group and the low group in terms of employment efficacy turned out to have a statistically significant moderating effect as the p value was less than 0.05, p = .040. The results of this study may be used as the useful basic data to not only improve the employment rate for the department of library and information science of community colleges in Korea, but also to prepare for the rapidly declining school-age population and the Institutional Accreditation.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.37-45
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• 2018

This study was conducted to analyze the effects of NCS-based beverage certificate education satisfaction on major satisfaction and job preparation behavior and to suggest an improvement plan. Questionnaire survey was made from May 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018 for the students who specialize in department of hotel tourism at colleges in the metropolitan area, and 271 copies of the total 300 questionnaires were used for analysis. The results of this study showed that hypotheses in this study were analyzed as having a significant positive effect and the results were found to have important effects especially on items such as 'curriculum', 'professor in charge', 'efficacy of certificate', 'type of certificate', 'satisfaction of professor', and 'major professor'. Thus, when operating the beverage certificate education program in the course of department of hotel tourism, the education program must be operated to increase the satisfaction of students by giving priority to the above items. In addition, beverage certificate has significant influence on job preparation and major satisfaction and therefore, it should be used as a strategy of student guidance to help improve the satisfaction of the department and the employment rate.

• Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.1180-1188
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• 2018

Purpose. This study was to effects of major satisfaction of dental hygiene students and students on self-efficacy and career preparation behavior by investigation to provide basic data for developing a systematic career customized employment support program. Methods. The data were collected from 249 students from December 1 to 10 day 2016 in Yeongnam region. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics frequency, t-test(One-way ANOVA), logistic regression by SPSS WIN 18.0 program. Results. According to the general characteristics department dental hygiene students were major satisfied with 59.8%. Satisfaction with career decision self-efficacy and career preparation self-efficacy was found to $68.30{\pm}10.21$ statistically significant(p<.001). Satisfaction was also found to statistically significant ($32.65{\pm}6.05$) in career preparation behavior(p<.05). Satisfactory scores were found to 1.306 times higher than the dissatisfied students in the career decision self-efficacy goal setting. It was found that 8.423 times in satisfaction of career planning in career preparation. Conclusion. Considering the effects of dental hygiene students' major satisfaction on career decision self - efficacy and career preparation behavior, it would be good if we could develop and use various programs to improve the satisfaction of students in their majors.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.136-143
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediating effects of major satisfaction, positive psychological capital, and job-Seeking Stress in the relationship between college students' self-directed learning and career preparation behavior. For this purpose, the study was conducted on 253 college students. The parallel mediation effect was analyzed using SPSS (24.0). Process Macro and Bootstrapping. The following results were confirmed. First, self-directed learning, major satisfaction, positive psychological capital, job-Seeking stress, and career preparation behavior were found to have a mutually significant influence relationship. Second, in the relationship between self-directed learning and career preparation behavior, major satisfaction, positive psychological capital, and job-seeking stress were confirmed to be variables that affect the parallel mediation effect and serial multiple mediation effect.Third, college students' self-directed learning was found to increase career preparation behavior through the mediating roles of major satisfaction, positive psychological capital, and employment stress. Therefore, in order to increase the career outcomes and success rates of college students, their own efforts, professors, and schools must create diverse environments and develop programs for college students' careers. Additionally, follow-up research must continue to supplement this.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.518-526
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to relationship between self-esteem and employment, appearance. This survey was performed on 483 of university students in some regions. The research was performed using a self-reported questionnaire. Self-esteem was higher in the first, fourth grade and college of military science & police administration, college of medical science. Job-seeking stress was higher in the fourth grade and college of global business adminstration, college of medical engineering. Job preparation behavior was higher in the fourth grade and college of rehabilitation & welfare education. Interest in appearance & appearance management behavior was higher in the female, fourth grade, college of global business adminstration. Higher self-esteem group showed significant interactive effects between the job preparation behavior, appearance management behavior. Job-seeking stress has also been investigated as a much higher employment preparation behavior. In conclusion, increasing the self-esteem of education in the college will be able to raise the employment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.322-331
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the factors of cooking practice education environment, educational satisfaction, and preparatory behavior according to the social customized LINC+ fostering project. The study conducted a questionnaire survey using convenience sampling and analyzed using SPSS21.0. As a result of the analysis, first, it was found that there were significant influences on educational programs, teaching ability, and cooking facilities, which are sub-factors of the cooking practice environment. Second, it was found that it had a significant effect on educational satisfaction and job preparation behavior. Third, it was found that it had a significant effect on the educational program and teacher ability, which are sub-factors of the cooking practice education environment. Lastly, through the results of the research, it is expected to provide basic data on policy, education environment, employment, and satisfaction in carrying out financial support projects in related majors. It is intended to provide evidence and implications.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.189-202
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• 2018

Purpose As job market squeezes and more institutions have been requiring NCS(National Competency Standards) based recruitments, the importance of NCS has been growing. Among the 10 domains of NCS, the most relevant one with MIS(Management Information Systems) field is 'information ability', which is becoming more important with the advent of the fourth industrial revolution era. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of college students' information ability on their career preparation behavior. Design/methodology/approach In this study, we set up a process model to comprehend the effect of college students' information ability 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. Findings Empirical analysis showed that information ability positively influenced college students' career preparation behaviors for employment. In addition, this study presented a process model explaining the effect of information capability on career preparation behavior. In order to strengthen the information ability of college students, not only university-level efforts, but also MIS discipline efforts should be accompanied. Other academic and practical implications are discussed.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.387-393
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• 2023

Objectives: This study was attempted in order to understand about the satisfaction with major and the dental hygiene professionalism in dental hygiene students and to grasp the factors affecting the career preparation behavior. Methods: The research subjects included 264 juniors and seniors who are attending dental hygiene department across Korea (three locations in Gyeonggi province, one locations in Daejeon, four locations in Jeolla province, and one locations in Daegu). Data were collected using the online questionnaire between March 6 to April 7, 2023. The chosen data analysis method included descriptive statistical analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple linear regression. Results: The following average scores were obtained from those surveyed: 3.25 points concerning career preparation behavior, 3.83 points concerning the respondent's satisfaction with their major, and 3.45 points concerning dental hygiene professionalism. As for a difference in career preparation behavior according to general characteristics, a meaningful difference was shown in terms of gender, motivation for entering the field, and first desired employment. Aspects of career preparation behavior, satisfaction with one's major, and dental hygiene professionalism showed a significant correlation and were confirmed to explain the prediction of 29.1% of the variation in the regression model. Conclusions: For the sake of having an integrated understanding about career preparation behavior among dental hygiene students, there is a need to conduct repeated research on diverse variables and to inquire into a causal relationships between such variables.