Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between children's grit, school adjustment, and career maturity, and to verify the mediating effect of school adjustment on the path from grit to career maturity.
 Methods For this purpose, we utilized longitudinal data from 2,150 children, measured from the 11th wave (4th grade in elementary school, 2018) to the 13th wave (6th grade in elementary schoo, 2020) of the Korean Children's Panel Study (KCPS). The collected data were analyzed for mediating effects using SPSS 28.0 and PROCESS Macro v4.0.
 Results The research results are as follows. First, children's grit showed a positive correlation with school adjust-ment and career maturity, and school adjustment showed a positive correlation with career maturity. Second, children's school adjustment was found to partially mediate the static relationship between grit and career ma-turity while controlling for important covariates such as children's gender, parents' educational background, and employment status.
 Conclusions These results can serve as foundational data to provide practical implications for the development of educational approaches and programs aimed at enhancing the career maturity of upper elementary school students.
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