This study was to confirm the mechanism through which the career
preparation behaviors are determined by identifying the structural relationship
between influential variables on the career preparation behaviors of college
students majoring in security service, and to offer proposals for promoting
their career preparation behaviors based on the research results. With this aim,
the study analyzes the effect of career decision-making autonomy, satisfaction
with a major, and satisfaction with martial arts training on career identity,
as well as the influential relationship concerning the effect of career identity
on career preparation behaviors. For this, the study set as a population college
students majoring in security service in the Gyeonggi region. As a subsequent
sampling method, the study selected 300 students through purposive sampling.
Then, excluding 13 copies of which the answers were insincere, 263 copies were
used for data analysis.
The detailed results include the following. First, regarding career
decision-making autonomy, it was discovered to have a positive (+) effect on
career decision-making self-efficacy. Second, whereas satisfaction with a
major had no significant effect on career decision-making self-efficacy, it had
a negative (-) effect on career preparation behaviors. Third, satisfaction with
martial arts training was found to have a positive (+) effect on career
decision-making self-efficacy. Fourth, career decision-making self-efficacy
had a positive (+) effect on career preparation behaviors. Fifth, career identity
had a negative (-) effect on career preparation behaviors.