Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the trajectory of career maturity changes in low-income college students who receive scholarships, and to examine the influence of self-directed learning on changes in career maturity. To achieve this, data from a longitudinal study on educationally disadvantaged children and adolescents provided by the S Foundation from 2019 to 2023 was analyzed for 395 students (151 males and 244 females) who were in the early years of university (1st and 2nd year) in 2019. The results are as follows. First, by examining the trajectory of changes in career maturity, it was confirmed that the career maturity of low-income college students significantly linearly increased with grade progression. Second, when analyzing individual differences using self-directed learning abilities as a time-varying covariate, the immediate effects of self-directed learning were significantly presented, but the delayed effects were not significant. Based on these results, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.
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