경력단절여성의 경력개발행동 척도개발 및 유형탐색: 고용가능성, 사회적지지, 진로장벽 지각을 중심으로

The purpose of the current study was to develop a scale of career development behaviors of career interrupted women and to use it to classify the types of such behaviors. The method of study took the following steps according to the purpose: first, the steps taken to develop a scale of career development behaviors of career interrupted women included development of questionnaires-experts' feasibility review-preliminary survey-main survey and the scale was developed through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Second, the scale of career development behaviors was used to gather resources from 244 career interrupted women and classify the behaviors through cluster analysis. Third, discrepancies among the types were analyzed in terms of reemployment possibility, social support, and awareness of career barrier in order to understand the characteristics of each type. The following were the results of the study: first, a scale of career development behaviors of career interrupted women was developed with 8 sub-factors and 32 questionnaires. Second, the types of career development behaviors of career interrupted women were classified into self-directed career developers, passive career developers, and dependent career developers. Third, any discrepancies among the types were analyzed in terms of reemployment possibility, social support, and awareness of career barrier. Finally, implications were made to support the career development of career interrupted women according to the type of their career development behaviors.