대학생들이 진로탐색 과정에서 겪는 경험: 근거이론적 접근

초록

The purpose of this study is to explore experiences during career exploration of university students using grounded theory approach. For this purpose, this study identified the contextual situations and backgrounds to concrete career exploration, the process of career exploration focused on their experiences and coping, and interactions between experiences and contextual situations. Data were collected from unstructured in-depth interviews with 15 senior university students, and analyzed by the procedure suggested by Strauss & Corbin(1998)’s grounded theory method producing key concepts and categories with the paradigm model. The result showed that the central phenomenon during career exploration process was ‘anxiety & confusion’. It occurred in the casual conditions once facing graduation time and this phenomenon also is affected by contextual conditions ‘continual unemployment difficult’ and ‘the personal financial problem’ caused by parent’s retirement and ‘lacking of time and information gathering’ for career decision making. In the phenomenon of anxiety & confusion, the intervening conditions as ‘self understanding’ and ‘the understanding of real work world’ promoted this phenomenon and its result of interaction was ‘self-exploration’ and ‘job exploration’ as action/interaction. Finally, the consequence of this career exploration process was ‘self-rediscovery’, ‘change of life perception’ and ‘career discovery’. The core category for career exploration was identified as ‘starting of independent life’, which means the beginning of independent life as a self-regulating career agency. This study implies that students construct their careers during the process of career exploration and contributes understanding of interactions of individual and contextual factors in one’s career construction for career guidance and counseling.

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