랜덤 포레스트를 활용한 중·고등학생의 진로적응력 영향 요인 탐색

Abstract

As the ability to flexibly adapt to the rapidly changing work environment is becoming more important, career adaptability is attracting attention in career education. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that affect career adaptability of middle and high school students by applying a random forest technique that is robust to multicollinearity. For this purpose, the fourth wave data of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) 2018 were used. The main results are as follows. First, it was found that the major factors that commonly influence the career adaptability of middle and high school students were ‘academic helplessness’, ‘academic engagement’, ‘emotional problems’, ‘self-esteem’, ‘grit’, and ‘teacher relationship’. In particular, ‘academic helplessness’ was found to have the greatest impact on the career adaptability of middle and high school students and was shown to have a negative relationship with career adaptability. Second, excluding common factors, ‘parenting attitude’ and ‘cooperation’ were derived as the main influencing factors for middle school students. Third, ‘number of annual participation in career and vocational activities’, ‘peer relationship’, and ‘school life satisfaction’ were derived as the main influencing factors for high school students. Based on these results, implications for developing the career adaptability of middle and high school students were discussed.