학교 밖 청소년의 진로 특성 및 진로성숙 예측요인

초록

The purpose of this study was not only to reveal career traits of out-of-youth with career barriers, career activities and career maturity but to examine predictors of career maturity. For this purpose, 250 out-of-school youth were surveyed by a written questionnaire and gathered data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, ANOVA and multiple regression analysis in SPSS 22.0 program. Demonstrated in the findings that out-of-school youths were high in independence but low in career-act, they would like to prepare and decide on their career by themselves but were not in the situation of taking action. Results also indicated that they had financial barriers since they feel more cost burden to achieve their career goals. In addition, youths responded that even though they have less opportunities to participate in vocational field trips and experience real work places, these activities are more helpful than to receive counseling or to take career aptitude tests. Considering instrumental barriers and sex discrimination appeared to be negative factors of career maturity, it is helpful to lessen those barriers to increase career maturity. The more help from career activities was associated with increased career maturity, and mostly for youths' career maturity, it is very important for out-of-school youth to have positive views on various career related activities. Based on the results, practical implications and recommendations for future research were discussed.

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