An Analysis on the Effects of Career Experiential Career Program on Adolescent Students’ Career Maturity : Utilizing Propensity Score Matching and Quantile Regression

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate effects of an experiential career program on the development of middle school students’ c areer m aturity. For this p urpose, we explored the 6th year dataset of the Seoul Education Longitudinal Study (SELS) using OLS, PSM, and Quantile Regression. Our results show that participation in an experiential career program, as well as each type of experiential career program affect the career maturity of middle school statistically. Moreover, the size of impact on students career maturity of each experiential career program type was found to differ from each other. The on-site professional activity is more effective for with low levels of career maturity than with high levels of career maturity. However, professional lectures, pre-university experiences and career experience camps are more effective for with high levels of career maturity than with low levels of career maturity. According to the results, we suggest that students career maturity should be considered before providing experiential career programs to students. Moreover, further analysis of the effects of various career activity program sizes on levels of career maturity could reduce the amount of excessive activities. It is also possible to propose in which grade experiential career programs should be carried out according to career maturity level.