Developing Occupational Awareness among University Students

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380555
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Konan University
• Principal Investigator: Maeda Masako 甲南大学, マネジメント創造学部, 教授 (20596192)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 佐藤 博樹 中央大学, 戦略経営研究科, 教授 (60162468) ; BOYLES Corinne 甲南大学, マネジメント創造学部, 教授 (30555488) ; 吉田 千鶴 関東学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70339787)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 大学生 / 就業意欲 / 初職継続意欲 / 授業参加 / 成績 / インターンシップ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, our purpose is to consider nature of the support and schemes needed for university students to develop their occupational awareness, find suitable jobs, continue in employment and thereby go on to become economically independent adults. To this purpose, we explored how university-level general education subjects, specialist subjects, and career education initiatives affect the occupational awareness of university undergraduates. We also sought to determine the factors that raise the commitment of new university graduate students to their first job. We found in particular that positive attitudes toward study for university subjects sustained over the four years, and participation in internships appear to strongly influence the formation of new graduate job commitment.

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