Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study were to investigate the patterns of change over time of job anxiety and career development in university students, and to analyze the longitudinal influence relationship between them where gender, work experience, and career guidance and counseling experience were set as conditional variables.
 Methods For the purposes of this study, the Latent Growth Modeling was analyzed using data based on the 12th (2018), 13th (2019), and 14th (2020) waves of the Youth Panel.
 Results The main results of this study were as follows. First, career anxiety tended to increase linearly over time and career development tended to decrease linearly over time. Second, the initial value of career anxiety had a negative and significant effect on initial value of career development. Third, it was found that only work experience among the condition variables had a negative and significant effect on the initial value of job anxiety.
 Conclusions Discussions were presented based on the results of this study, which is expected to be used as basic data to establish policy measures to solve problems related to university students' job and career in the future.

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