Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify the impact of the planned happenstance skills of college students on the life satisfaction on the career adaptation model, and to examine the mediated effects of career adaptability, occupational engagement job-seeking anxiety. For this purpose, the data of 343 people collected by conducting an online survey of 3rd and 4th year male and female college students was used for the final analysis. The main results of this study are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the double mediating effect of career adaptability and occupational engagement in the relationship between planned happenstance skill and life satisfaction, it was confirmed that it was statistically significant. Second, as a result of confirming the mediated moderating effect of the research model, the moderating effect of job-seeking anxiety on the mediating effect of career adaptability in the relationship between planned happenstance skills and life satisfaction of college students was that the interaction term between planned happenstance skills and job-seeking anxiety was found to have a significant negative effect on. The significance of this study is as follows. First, it is meaningful in that it confirmed and revealed the importance of improvement of planned happenstance skills, career adaptability, and occupational agreement for college students’ life satisfaction. Second, the possibility of the career adaptation model was confirmed. Through this, it is meaningful in that it revealed the need for career counseling intervention in accordance with the level of individual needs. Third, it is meaningful in that it confirmed the integrative aspect by applying the employment anxiety to the career adjustment model targeting the 3rd and 4th year university students who can perceive job-seeking anxiety relatively high.