Abstract

This study investigated the effect of the accordance of the biological gender characteristics and sex-role identity on career attitude maturity and career decision barriers of college students. The subjects of this study consisted of 373 college students(male: 128, female: 245). The sex differences was shown in preparation, independence. And sex-role identity differences was shown in the total score of career attitude maturity, decisiveness, confidence, preparation, independence, the total score of career decision barriers, and indecisiveness. The differences shown in the degree of career attitude maturity and career decision barriers by the accordance of the biological gender characteristics and sex-role identity was that the accordant group had a significant higher score than the unaccordant group in the total of the career attitude maturity and the four subfactors­decisiveness, goal orientation, confidence, and preparation. And the unaccordant group had a significant higher score in the total score of career decision barriers, and the four subfactors­lack of career information, lack of self-clarity, indecisiveness, and lack of necessity recognition than the accordant group. The results suggested that it was necessary to consider the accordance of the biological gender and sex-role identity in explaining the causes of the inconsistency with the previous studies on the effects of the gender variables related with the career development.