The purpose of this study is to develop a program to improve undergraduates' career maturity for their career-decision and to testify the effect of the program.
A career maturity test was carried out on 62 boys and girls undergraduates of S universit...
The purpose of this study is to develop a program to improve undergraduates' career maturity for their career-decision and to testify the effect of the program.
A career maturity test was carried out on 62 boys and girls undergraduates of S university located in Busan metropolitan city, who hoped to participate in the test voluntarily. They were randomly placed into an experimental, a comparative and a control group by 8 persons each. The experimental group went through a Career Maturity Improvement Program and the comparative group went through a Career Research Discussion Group Program, while nothing was carried out on the control group for 6 days, 2 sessions a day, totalling 12 sessions, with 90 minutes per session. U&I (uprise and improve) Career Maturity Inventory made by Kim, Man-Kwon(2002) on the basis of Crites' Career Maturity Model was used in order to measure the career maturity. And then the data was treated with SPSS/WIN 10.0 program, in which standard deviation and mean of the career maturity score were got and ANCOVA and scheffe test were carried out.
The result of this study were as follows;
First, the subjects of the experimental group who had participated in the career maturity improvement program significantly improved in career maturity, compared with the comparative group who had participated in the career research discussion group and e control group who had not been trained at all.
Second, the subjects of the experimental group who had participated in the career maturity improvement program significantly improved in determination, intention, assurance, preparation, independence and consistency which were sub-categories of career maturity test, compared with the comparative group who had participated in career research discussion group and the control group who had not been trained at all.