The purpose of this study was to shed light on the meaning and the nature of their experiences on counseling experience of the undergraduate clients with career trouble by emotional factor. It''s specifically meant to determine the nature of their experiences by investigating why the undergraduate clients came to the university advisement center, how the undergraduate clients solve a problem, what their experiences meant and what influence the experiences exerted on them in-depth interviews. Giorgi''s phenomenological method, which is one of qualitative research methods, was utilized to analyze the experiences of the undergraduate clients.
The subjects in this study were six selected the undergraduate clients with the career trouble by emotional factor. They were interviewed in depth, and the collected interview data were analyzed and interpreted by Giorgi''s method. This study used the vivid stories obtained from six participants as purposive sampling and these interviews were done for two or three times after research agreement. As a result, 1343 meaning unit were derived and summarized into 1337 meaning units, and back again tied to 24 sub-components and finally divided into 8 categories.
The findings of the study on the nature of their experiences were as follows: First, participants in the counseling application recognized their difficulties as career concerns. Second, participants had problems with attachment. Third, the core of the interventions in participants'' counseling was the counselor''s sincerity.
So far, the undergraduate clients with the career trouble by emotional factor were solved it by seeking a sense of security based on the sincerity of the counselor. Yet the findings of the study might not be able to generalize since just a small number of the undergraduate clients with type based on the career decision by emotional factor were investigated.
Based on the these results, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed, and the future research directions were suggested.