Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study is verifying the longitudinal mediation effects of social support between academic achievement and career determination in multicultural adolescents. Through verification, this study presents the social discussion in improving the career determination of multicultural adolescents.
 Methods In this study, the Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study(MAPS) from the National Youth Policy Institute was used, and the subjects were 1,068 multicultural adolescents. The Autoregressive Cross-Lagged(ARCL) model was set for the verification of the longitudinal mediation effects. the significance of the longitudinal mediating effect was verified by the Sobel test and Bootstrapping.
 Results The self-regression effect of academic achievement and career determination was significant, so it was confirmed that attention should be paid to improving career determination by intervention. In addition, teacher support and peer support were found to completely mediate the relationship between academic achievement and career determination.
 Conclusions It provided social discussions and alternatives for improving career determination of multicultural adolescents by identifying individual variables and environmental variables. In particular, it suggests that teacher support and peer support play an important role in career determination of multicultural adolescents.

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