진로탐색활동이 중학생의 창의성에 미치는 영향에 관한 종단 분석

초록

This study examined the aspect of change in career exploration activity and students’ creativity by the latent growth model which determines developmental aspect of variables over time, and performed the longitudinal analysis to prove the activity's effect on their creativity. For the purpose of this research, the latent growth model validation was performed with longitudinal panel data of 3,041 middle school students from the Seoul Educational Longitudinal Study (SELS) in South Korea. The analysis method and procedure are as follows. In order to confirm the aspect of change in career exploration activity and creativity and to verify their longitudinal influence relationship, the latent growth model for individual variables was compared with the competition model to find the optimal model. The optimal model was integrated and led to the analysis on the latent growth model. Then, the effect of the career exploration activity satisfaction variable on the change trajectory was analyzed by extending the research model. The data analysis showed that career exploration activity scores increased as grades increased, but students’ creativity decreased as grades increased. Second, the initial value of career exploration activity had a significantly positive effect on the initial value of creativity, while showed a negative effect on the creativity change rate. The change rate of career exploration activity had a positive effect on the rate of change of creativity. Third, satisfaction of career exploration activity which is a predictor positively influenced the initial value and change rate of career exploration activity, and also had a positive effect on the initial value of creativity. Based on these findings, the study discussed the importance of the career exploration activity in improving the students’ creativity, and drew a few policy implications including strengthening policies that stimulate career exploration activities.

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