The purpose of this article is to categorize the patterns of career barriers of four-year university students in Korea. We examined a longitudinal sample of university students from the 2018-19 Korean Education and Employment Panel II (KEEPII) survey to identify career barrier categories using latent profile analysis(LPA) and multinomial logistic regression.
Our empirical analysis yields three main findings. Firstly, four determinants, insufficient information on occupations and careers, inefficient self-career understanding, lack of self-confidence and personality, and environmental career conditions, were utilized to classify three latent profiles of career barriers. Thereby, the three groups were as follows: 'low-level career barriers', 'barriers in career conditions', and 'high-level career barriers'. Third, latent profile membership was significantly associated with gender, university location, career maturity, and self-resilience at the individual level, times participated in career exploration programs at the career-related level, as well as economic and career stress at the stressors level.
This study proposes a meaningful approach to shed a light on university students' latent profiles of career barriers in Korea and to capture the difficulties and influencing factors related to career decisions during their school-to-work transition and early career formation.

Authors:
Su Jung Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea
Min Wook Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Je Hee Chung, Seoul National University, South Korea
Se Young Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea

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Ms JEHEE JEONG is a University Postgraduate Student at Seoul National University in South Korea

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