The objective of the present study is to compare self-efficacy and types of decision making for career between Korean and Chinese university students in an attempt to determine the difference, if any, in characteristics of their decision making for ca...
The objective of the present study is to compare self-efficacy and types of decision making for career between Korean and Chinese university students in an attempt to determine the difference, if any, in characteristics of their decision making for career and, by thus, to provide information useful for guiding them in this regard.
Following tasks were set up to attain the above-mentioned objective:
First, is there any difference between Korean and Chinese university students in self-efficacy and types of decision making for career depending on their personal background?
Second, what kind of difference exists in relationship between Korean and Chinese university students in their self-efficacy and types of decision making?
Third, what is the difference in effects of Korean and Chinese university students' self-efficacy upon the types of their decision making for career?
In order to solve such tasks, selected were 253 students enrolled in universities located in OO city, Korea and 269 enrolled in universities in OO city, China respectively as subjects for this study. SPSS program was employed to analyze the data by means of frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multi-regression analyses.
The findings of the study could be summed up as follows:
First, there was difference between Korean and Chinese university students in self-efficacy and types of decision making for career depending on their personal background. In case of self-efficacy for decision making of career, Chinese students were found to be more capable to assess themselves and solve problems, while Korean students tended to score high points in such factors as collection of job-related information, selection of vocational goals and planning for future. Self-efficacy for decision making of career was recorded as higher particularly in case of Korean male students, Koreans from the upper-class and Korean freshmen. Korean students turned out to be more reasonable and intuitional when making decision of career, whereas Chinese students showed stronger spirit of dependence in that case. Korean male students, Korean students from the upper-class, those who decided future career and Korean sophomores were rather more reasonable in making decision for their future career while Korean male students, Korean students from the upper-class, those who decided future career and Korean freshmen were inclined to take a more intuitional stand when deciding on the course to pursue after graduation. Korean female students, Korean students from the lower classes, Chinese students who decided on the future course and Chinese juniors were found to take a more intuitional stance in their decision making of career.
Second, there was difference in correlation between Korean and Chinese university students in self-efficacy and types of decision making for career. Higher correlation was revealed to exist between Korean and Chinese university students in their self-efficacy and types of reasonable decision making for career, with Korean students having less correlation than their Chinese counterparts. With regard to relation between self-efficacy and intuitional types of decision making for career, Korean students demonstrated positive correlation whereas Chinese students showed negative one. As for relationship between self-efficacy and dependent types of decision making for career, Korean students were highly negatively correlated but Chinese students displayed almost insignificant correlation.
Third, there was difference in the effects of Korean and Chinese university students' self-efficacy of decision making for career upon the types of such decision making. The Korean students' explanatory power of self-efficacy for the type of reasonable decision making exhibited a downward trend (41.3%) compared to Chinese students (45.9%), which would mean that the former were better able to plan for the future and collect job-related information and were inclined to make decision in a reasonable way as they owned greater potential to solve problems. Whereas, however, Chinese students seemed to be more talented in choosing their vocational courses, collecting job-related information and making decision concerning career in a reasonable way as they were more oriented toward self-assessment. The Korean students tended to show greater explanatory power (15.6%) of self-efficacy for the type of intuitional decision making for career than Chinese students (10.0%). In other word, the higher ability of self-assessment the Korean students owned, the more tendency toward intuitional decision making for career they displayed, while the lower capability of self-assessment and the higher capacity to solve problems Chinese students had, the stronger they were inclined to make decision regarding career in an intuitional manner. The explanatory power of Korean students' self-efficacy for career-related decision making influencing their dependent type of career-related decision making tended to be higher (55.7%) than Chinese students (11.6%). That is to say that Korean students had lower ability for self-assessment and problem solution and were inclined to make decision in a more dependent manner when choosing better goals, while Chinese students possessed more ability to solve problems and were tended to make decision in a more dependent way as they had lower self-assessment.
These findings support the viewpoint that the difference in self-efficacy and types of decision making for career between Korean and Chinese university students is caused not from difference in themselves but from difference in gender, family income, decision making of career and school year, etc. It can therefore be said that there is room for further systematic and depth investigation to compare career- and job-taking characteristics between Korean and Chinese college students in the future.
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