청년 취업자의 진로성숙도와 진로의사결정의 관계에서 구직효능감이 지니는 매개효과

Abstract

Despite the increasing complexity of career decision-making in modern workplaces, there remains a lack of discussion regarding career decision-making among youth employees. Therefore, this study focused on youth employees and assumed job search self-efficacy as a mediating variable influencing their career decisions. We examined whether job search self-efficacy mediates the relationship between career maturity and career decision-making. To achieve this, we compared the results of traditional mediation analysis, traditional mediation analysis with control variables, and causal mediation analysis using data from the Youth Panel 2021, consisting of 1992 youth employees. The analysis revealed consistent results of complete mediation in both traditional mediation analysis and traditional mediation analysis with control variables. Additionally, through causal mediation analysis, it was found that for the direct effects, both DE (0) and DE (1) were significant but showed opposite directions of influence. For the indirect effects, both IE (0) and IE (1) were significant in a positive direction. Based on these findings, implications for career decision-making among young job seekers were discussed.