Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, College of Health Science, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si 31116, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 4;19(9):5572. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095572.
Academic achievement and career maturity are closely related, but an understanding of the causal direction is lacking. The purpose of this study was to analyze the causal relationship between career maturity and academic achievement using autoregressive cross-lagged modeling. This study analyzed the data of 888 adolescents (mean age = 15.90) from the Youth Panel Survey. Autoregressive modeling indicates that academic achievement and career maturity remained stable over time. Higher academic achievement at a previous time point was associated with higher academic achievement at the next time point and similarly for career maturity. Moreover, as a result of cross-lagged effects, academic achievement at one time had a positive effect on career maturity at the next time point, while career maturity at one time had a positive impact on academic achievement at the next time point. In other words, there was a bidirectional effect between academic achievement and career maturity. This study implies that researchers and educators should consider career maturity as well as academic achievement for career guidance.
学业成就和职业成熟度密切相关，但对于因果关系的理解还很缺乏。本研究旨在使用自回归交叉滞后建模分析职业成熟度与学业成就之间的因果关系。本研究分析了来自青年小组调查的 888 名青少年（平均年龄=15.90）的数据。自回归模型表明，学业成就和职业成熟度在时间上保持稳定。上一个时间点的较高学业成就与下一个时间点的较高学业成就相关，职业成熟度也是如此。此外，由于交叉滞后效应，一个时间点的学业成就对下一个时间点的职业成熟度有积极影响，而一个时间点的职业成熟度对下一个时间点的学业成就有积极影响。换句话说，学业成就和职业成熟度之间存在双向影响。本研究表明，研究人员和教育工作者应该在职业指导中考虑职业成熟度和学业成就。
