Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of social support on the relationship between career decision level and career satisfaction of Korean college students. For this aim, 294 college students participated in this study and their career decision levels, career satisfaction, and social support were assessed. Collected data was analyzed with hierarchical multivariate analysis. Baron and Kenny(1986)’s mediation test procedure and Sobel test were employed to test mediational effect of social support. As results, there were significant and positive relationships among career decision level, social support, and career satisfaction. It means that high level of career decision level would be able to lead high level of career satisfaction as well as social support. Moreover, there was mediational effect of social support on the relationship between career decision level and career satisfaction. In sum, for promoting Korean college students’ career satisfaction, it would be important to emphasize increasing effective social support in addition to focus on their career decision level.

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