Abstract

This research is to find out the characteristics of career attitude & maturity on each stage, providing basic concept in building up the career counseling program. Toward this end, 2,007 students in junior and senior high schools, colleges and universities were collected and this survey was carried out at school. The result of the survey showed there are clear differences in career development in accordance with age. The older groups defintely show their confidence and decisiveness in career, and the strong goal-oriented attitude toward job and career is much more clearly shown than from the senior highschool groups. The occupational information has divided the whole into two group; one is junior high schoolers and the other is senior high and university students. The career decision self-efficacy had its strong lead in the older groups, and got stronger since they entered universities. The stepwise multiple regression analysis was taken to measure how far career decision self-efficacy would be involved in career development. The analysis has told us that career decision self-efficacy is turned out to be a more important variable to girls(45-50%) than boys(13-42%), and 55% of them regarded goal selection as the most critical variable of all. According to the analysis, self-regulation is the most significant variable to both boys and girls to measure up career decision self-efficacy. This self-regulation is a kind of efficacy which leads to goal setting and self-response based on self-judgement. Confidence on the career decision is not so much to do with general sense of self-confidence or confidence on his or her academic achievement as self-regulation to control his or her own system, which can be named as 'self-efficacy' in a more positive way.