Development of the Career Identity Program for College Students

Kim, Shin-Jeong

Department of Education
Graduate School, Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Korea
(Supervised by Professor Kim, Seong-Hoi)
(Abstract)
The purpose of this study was to develop a Career Identity Program for College students. In this study, career identity was defined as a clear and stable self images of one''s career in the area of cognition, emotion and behavior. Career identity in this investigation was operationally defined as the total scores of the three factors assessed by the Career Identity Scale for College students(Kim & Kim, 2012). The three factors are career-identity cognition, career-identity emotion, career-identity behavior.

The study investigated the following research questions:
1. Will the Career Identity Program for College students be constructed properly?
2. Will the Career Identity Program for College students increase the scores of career identity in the treatment group more effectively than those in the control group?
3. Will the Career Identity Program for College students increase the scores of sub-factors(career-identity cognition, career-identity emotion, career-identity behavior) in the treatment group more effectively than those in the control group?

The Career Identity Program for College students was developed based on the program development model designed in this study. The developed program consists of the following areas: 1) verification of the program development 2) survey of the needs 3) formulation of the goals and objects 4) selection and sequencing of the contents 5) construction of the evaluation plans 6) evaluation by an expert group and implementation of the program 7) execution of pilot program 8) modification of the program 9) execution of the program 10) evaluation of the program 11) confirmation of the final program and its management.
The Career Identity Program for Colleges students was made up of ten sessions, each lasted one hour and forty minutes. The Career Identity Scale for College Students(Kim & Kim, 2012) was administered to students of Y College in K city. Participants for the study consisted of 28 students, all of which had lower mean scores. They were then randomly split into 2 groups of 14 students.
The Career Identity Program for college students was evaluated based on the program evaluation model designed in this study. In the program evaluation, The Career Identity Scale for College Students(Kim & Kim, 2012) was used as a measuring instrument to test the effects of the Career Identity Program and participants satisfaction was used based on the questionnaire designed in this study in addition. To verify the effects of the program, a variance analysis was used. The program used for data analysis was SPSS 18.0 using a significance level of .05.
The results were as follows. The training group was significantly higher than control group in the level of overall Scale for Career Identity. The training group was higher than control group in the level of sub-factors Scale for Career Identity.

The conclusion of this study through the several experiments and discussion are as follows.
1. It showed that the Career Identity Program for College Students was constructed properly.
2. It showed that the Career Identity Program for College Students was effective in enhancing career identity scores.
3. It showed that the Career Identity Program for College Students was effective in enhancing the sub-factors (career-identity cognition, career-identity emotion, career-identity behavior) scores.