The purpose of the study is to verify the moderating effect of self-leadership in the effect of self-esteem of university students on career adaptation. Through this, it is meaningful to provide data for improving career adaptability by increasing sel...
The purpose of the study is to verify the moderating effect of self-leadership in the effect of self-esteem of university students on career adaptation. Through this, it is meaningful to provide data for improving career adaptability by increasing self-esteem. In addition, the purpose is to improve university students' ability to cope with their careers and improve their quality of life by cultivating self-leadership and improving their career adaptation. In order to achieve this research purpose, the research questions were set as follows.
Research question: Is Self-leadership effective in the relationship between Self-esteem and Career adaptation in university students?
The population of this study was conducted online due to the spread of COVID-19, and the population randomly sampled a total of 481 four-year university students nationwide. Data collection took place over about four days from September 6 to 9, 2021, and 430 data were collected and used for the final analysis, excluding 51 copies of data that exceeded the response and response time of 481. The measurement tool used a self-report questionnaire consisting of self-esteem, career adaptability, self-leadership scale, and demographic characteristics survey questions.
The data collected in this study were analyzed using SPSS for Windows 25.0, SPSS Process Macro v4.0, a statistical analysis program. Reliability analysis was conducted to verify the reliability of the self-esteem, career adaptability, and self-leadership scale. In addition, frequency analysis and percentage were calculated to find out the characteristics of the variables, and correlation analysis was conducted between each variable to confirm the relevance and direction between each variable. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to verify how self-leadership plays a controlling role in the effect of self-esteem on career adaptability. In addition, a hierarchical regression analysis was conducted by creating an interaction term between self-esteem and self-leadership. Based on these analysis results, the results of this study are summarized as follows:
First, as a result of conducting correlation between self-esteem, career adaptation, and self-leadership, there was a positive correlation between self-esteem, career adaptation, and self-leadership.
Second, as a result of hierarchical regression analysis to verify the moderating effect of self-esteem and career adaptation, self-leadership was found to have a moderating effect in the relationship between self-esteem and career adaptation.
Third, as a result of hierarchical regression analysis to verify the moderating effect of self-leadership sub-variables in the relationship between self-esteem and career adaptation, the moderating effect of behavior-oriented strategies was confirmed.
Taken together, it was confirmed that self-leadership acts as an important variable in the relationship between self-esteem and career adaptation, and that self-leadership acts as a modulating variable between these two variables. The results suggest that in-depth and multilateral follow-up studies should be conducted to improve self-leadership in order to increase university students' career adaptability.