대학생의 진로 불확실성 감소가 진로결정 자기효능감에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The complexity and uncertainty of modern society changing every minute have enormous impacts on the lives and careers of individuals living in this era. The major changes to the structure of the occupational society driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are increasing uncertainty about careers. In this situation, how college students deal with the career uncertainty they experience works as an important element in their career decisions. This study thus sets out to verify the effects of reduced career uncertainty of college students on their career decision-making self-efficacy.
 In order to reduce career uncertainty, the investigator implemented a group counseling program for careers whose effectiveness on the reduced career uncertainty of college students was verified. The study selected college students in lower graders(freshmen and sophomores) to participate in the program for the research purpose at S University in Chungcheongnam Province. They were divided into 163 experimental groups and 159 control groups. While the experiment group participated in an 11-session program with a 50-minute session once or twice per week, the control group participated in no programs. A survey was conducted before and after the program, and collected data was put into the paired-sample t-test and covariance analysis with the SPSS Win 23.0 program.
 The findings show that the experiment group had reduction effects in all the subfactors of career uncertainty and that the control group showed no statistically significant effects. The experiment group that had reduction effects for career uncertainty made a statistically significant increase in career decision-making self-efficacy, but there were no significant changes to that of the control group. The present study demonstrated that the reduction of career uncertainty as the first measure for the career uncertainty of individuals had positive effects on the enhancement of career decision-making self-efficacy and shed light on causal relations between the reduction of career uncertainty and career decision-making self-efficacy, thus holding its significance. The findings of the study are expected to serve as grounds for plans to provide more effective career decision counseling by examining the relations of psychological factors in college students that have difficulties with their career decisions due to the uncertainty of their future.