A Research on Secular Changes of University Students' Career Conciousness : On Matriculates of the Clinical Psychology Course in the Class of 1998

埼玉県越谷市The purpose of this study is to survey three years secular changes of university students’ career consciousness and find out effective hints for facilitating their career development. Investigations by the questionnaire which consisted of five main questions, were conducted yearly in every April from 1999 to 2001. Subjects were 170 matricurates of the Clinical Psychology Course in the class of 1998. The results showed that the ratio of the third-year students who had decided difinitly their course after graduation, was lower than other subjects of both sexes. In the avaraged ratio, graduate school oriented students were the most,who were fourth-year male students and wished to obtain a license for clinical counseling. Both sexes subjects who wanted to be company employees increased with the years. The percentage of students who had strong anxieties about own futures were 57 points for female, 50 points for male at the fourth year. Difficulities in getting jobs or entering graduate schools, and ndecision or ambiguity for their own future courses were put high on the list of those anxieties. These results suggested importance of providing real and helpful informations, placing justly vocational education in the university curriculum and preparing meticulous career counseling system for the new students