Influencing Factors on Career Preparation Behavior of Korean University Students: Moderating Effect of Career Decision Level

Abstract

While university students go to school, they prepare and make efforts with a lot of worries about the career they want. The starting point of this study is the question of how university students do career preparation behavior and what variables affect it. Based on previous studies, the relationship between educational service quality (faculty service quality and curriculum service quality), career decision-making self-efficacy, and career preparation behavior was analyzed. Career decision level was used as a moderating variable. 426 questionnaires were analyzed for hypothesis testing with the structural equation of AMOS 21.0. The results of the empirical analysis are as follows. First, it was found that faculty service quality and curriculum service quality positively affect career decision-making self-efficacy and career preparation behavior. Second, it was found that career decision-making self-efficacy positively affects career preparation behavior. Third, the moderating effect of career decision level among educational service quality, career decision-making self-efficacy, and career preparation behavior is statistically significant. Therefore, educational service quality and career decision-making self-efficacy can play an important role in university students' career preparation behavior, and there is a difference according to career decision level. In conclusion, the implications of this study and future research directions are presented.