Abstract

This study was an attempt to examine the relationship among career indecision, attachment, and selfobject need. Three hundred and five college students of Seoul and Kyung-gi do participated in this research and they carried out Experiences in Close Relationship(ECR), Korean Selfobject Need Inventory(K-SONI), and Korean Career Indecision Inventory(K-C II). The result indicates chat selfobject need, attachment, and career indecision are correlated, especially showing stronger relationship with attachment anxiety than with attachment avoidance. Also the avoidance of selfobject correlates with almost all subordinate factors of career indecision and in contrast the subordinate factors of the hunger for selfobject correlate with only a few subordinate factors of career indecision. Moreover both the hunger for selfobject and the avoidance of selfobject correlate with the indetermination factor of career indecision. The result of Structural Equation Modeling showed that the effect of attachment on career indecision was mediated by the avoidance of selfobject. Finally the implication of the present findings is discussed in the context of past and future research.