A Prediction Model of Factors related to Career Maturity in Korean High School Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with career maturity among Korean high school students. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted using secondary data from the 2012 Korean Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS). The participants were 496 high school students who completed the supplemental survey for children, which included items on career maturity, self-esteem, study stress, teacher attachment, relationship with parents, peer attachment, depression and anxiety. Descriptive statistics, the chi-square-test, the t-test, and a decision tree were used for data analysis. Results: The decision tree identified five final nodes predicting career maturity after forcing self-esteem as the first variable. The highest predicted rate of high career maturity was associated with high self-esteem, experience of career counseling, and high teacher attachment. The lowest predicted rate of high career maturity was associated with low self-esteem and low attachment to friends. Conclusion: Factors influencing career maturity were varied by levels of self-esteem in Korean high school students. Thus, it is necessary to develop different approaches to enhance career maturity according to levels of self-esteem.

Adopting a cognitive information processing approach to increase students’ career maturity

“…For example, building effective communication with family, inviting parents to discuss related careers to be chosen, or showing high motivation/concrete effort to achieve that career to parents. What researchers did was also supported by the results of previous studies that explained that support from parents and close people emotionally had a very positive effect on self-confidence and individual confidence in determining the career to be cultivated (Noor et al, 2021;Seo & Kim, 2019;Stringer & Kerpelman, 2010). One way to get support is by building intense interactions with people who are considered capable of providing career motivation (Jacobs et al, 2019).…”

“…In addition, career counselling activities were carried out also to respond to the results of the latest research conducted in Korea involving 496 students, which shows that a high level of career maturity among students is related to their experience of attending career counselling programs carried out by the teaching staff (Seo & Kim, 2019;Ishak et al, 2020). Meanwhile, the career description socialisation was carried out considering the fact that there is a positive correlation between information obtained related to a career with the achievement of the profession in the future.…”

Prediction Model for Non-pharmacological Treatment Implement of Hypertension based on Residential Area

“…Seo & Kim, 2021). To form the model, the maximum level was set to 3, with 100 parent and 50 child nodes (Choi & Seo, 1999;Seo & Kim, 2019). We used a split-sample validation test to analyze the validity of the final model (Choi et al, 1998;Seo & Kim, 2021).…”

Vocational Maturity and Hopelessness of Turkish Senior Students

“…Some of these studies are based on the relationships between vocational maturity and personality traits. Studies have shown that there are positive and significant relationships between high self-esteem and high vocational maturity (Seo and Kim, 2019), high vocational decision-making self-efficacy and high vocational maturity (Bozgeyikli, Bacanlı and Doğan, 2009;Singh and Shukla, 2015), proactive personality traits and high vocational maturity (Park, 2015). On the other hand, Atlı (2017) found that high school students with positive personality traits such as openness, extroversion, adaptability, and responsibility have high vocational maturity; on the other hand, students with neurotic negative personality traits have low vocational maturity levels in high school.…”