Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study were to analyze the trend of college students' career preparation behavior research from 1997 to 2022 through keyword network analysis.
 Methods Among the papers published in RISS, papers related to career preparation behavior of college students were extracted and divided into the first half (1997-2015) and the second half (2016-2022) based on 2016. Keyword frequency analysis and network analysis were performed and visualized for each period.
 Results As a result of the network analysis, the keywords with high connection centrality and mediation centrality in the first half were ‘career decision self-efficacy’, ‘self-efficacy’, ‘career maturity’, ‘career decision level’, ‘career barriers’, ‘career identity’, ‘employment preparation behavior’ and ‘self-leadership’. And in the second half year, ‘career decision self-efficacy’, ‘major satisfaction’, ‘career barrier’, ‘social support’, ‘career decision level’, ‘nursing college student’, ‘job preparation behavior’, ‘grit’, and ‘mediating effect’ were. ‘Career maturity’, ‘self-efficacy’, and ‘career decision’ were keywords with high centrality in the first half year, but lowered in the second half, while ‘major satisfaction’, ‘social support’, ‘nursing college student’, ‘grit’, ‘positive psychological capital’, ‘career adaptability’, ‘career elasticity’, and ‘resilience’ were keywords with low centrality in the first half, but increased centrality in the second half.
 Conclusions The trend of research on career preparation behavior of college students showed differentiated characteristics by period. Studies on environmental variables and the ability to cope with job insecurity and uncertainty in work increased in the second half.

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