This study is intended to look into the effect of national competency standards(NCS)-based vocational transition education on employment barriers and career coping behaviors in university lifelong education. To achieve this, a survey was empirically c...
This study is intended to look into the effect of national competency standards(NCS)-based vocational transition education on employment barriers and career coping behaviors in university lifelong education. To achieve this, a survey was empirically carried out to 300 vocational transition trainees, who retired midway from their job, in university lifelong education centers in Seoul. The results of this study were as follows. For hypothesis 1, vocational transition education for midway retirees had a positive effect on overcoming employment barriers in university lifelong education. For hypothesis 2, employment barriers had a positive effect on controlled career coping behaviors, and a negative effect on evasive career coping behaviors, rejecting hypothesis 2. For hypothesis 3, vocational transition education had a positive effect on controlled career coping behaviors, adopting hypothesis 3. And vocational transition education had a positive effect on career management and problem solving ability of evasive career coping behaviors, and a negative effect on self-management ability and communication ability of evasive career coping behaviors, rejecting hypothesis 3. For hypothesis 4, employment barriers had a positive mediating effect on controlled career coping behaviors in vocational transition education, and a negative mediating effect on evasive career coping behaviors in vocational transition education, rejecting hypothesis 4. Consequently, NCS-based vocational transition education can have a positive effect on overcoming employment barriers and preparing for career coping behaviors in university lifelong education centers.