本研究主旨在探討台中縣某科技大學幼保系學生的職業自我認定狀態、生涯阻隔因素及其關聯,並分析學制(即日間部/進修部)和學生來源背景的影響。研究採用問卷調查法,以一至四年級全體學生794人,有效樣本532人為研究對象。研究工具包括楊智馨和林世華(1998)的「自我認定狀態量表」和陳麗如(1994)的「生涯阻隔因素量表」。研究結果顯示:(1)全體學生的認定狀態為「達成」者佔23.7%,其中進修部學生的認定狀況較日間學生成熟,且來自普通高中者優於高職幼保科或綜合高中幼保學群學生,(2)八種生涯阻隔因素中,除學習狀況和學習困擾外,其他因素均高於陳麗如(1994)以我國一般大學生所建立的常模一個標準差以上,且日間學生在猶豫行動和方向選擇上的得分顯著高於進修部學生,(3)認定狀態不同的學生在各項生涯阻隔因素的得分均達顯著差異;認定達成組的各阻隔因素平均分數都顯著低於其他各組(即延期認定、喪失主動、認定混淆),而上述三組之間的阻隔分數則無顯著差異,可見各阻隔因素都可能影響職業自我認定。建議輔導工作同時考量生涯阻隔因素中的各種心理因素和學生對職場方向選擇的信心等社會認知因素。
Based on the data collected from 532 college students majored in Child Care and Education in central Taiwan, this study explored the students’ vocational identity status and perceived barriers in career development and the relations between the two factors. The research instruments used in this study were Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOMEIS-2) and the Career Barrier Scale. Results show that: (1) 23.7% of the students are in the identity achieved category and the majority of them are the continuing education students, (2) mean scores of the six barriers, including personal characteristics, hesitate to take actions, choice to the future, satisfaction with choice of academic major, information exploration, and the weak-willed, are significantly higher than the national norms, and the hesitate to take action scores of the regular students are significantly higher than those of the continuing education students, (3) mean scores of all the perceived barriers of the students in achieved identity status are significantly lower than those of the other groups of identity status, including moratorium, foreclosure, and confusion. The results verified the claim of recent research that college students perceive a variety of career-related barriers and indicated that all the perceived barriers are related to low vocational identity. The perceived barriers have a direct impact on career decision-making process and merit attention in the career counseling.