Abstract

This article aims to explore the effect of high school students’ self-esteem on career maturity through the dual mediation of school happiness and self-directed learning. To this end, panel data of 2, 359 students(2019) from the BELS were used. As a result of the study, students’ self-esteem had a positive effect on self-directed learning, school happiness, and career maturity, and school happiness and self-directed learning also had a positive effect on career maturity. By performing bootstrapping through phantom variables, school happiness and self-directed learning were found to have a partial mediating effect on the effect of self-esteem on career maturity, and the indirect effect was greater than the direct effect. In addition, it was confirmed that the mediating effect of school happiness was greater than that of self-directed learning. Based on theses results, school adaptation and belonging promotion program that can increase school happiness, community activities and counseling to form relationships with teachers were proposed.

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