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the present researh investigated the factors influencing female college students’ career decision making In an affort to contribute to the career counseling for female college students. A Survey of 530 female college students enrolled in universities in Seoul and Cheonan examined the predicting power of the proposed path model. Major findings are as follows: 1) The results showed that there were s respondents in this survey showed significant mean differences in career decision making, self efficacy, and the level of attachment to parents and friends by their major. It is also reported that respondents’ GPAs resulted in significant mean differences in their career decision making, self-identity, self-efficacy, career identity, and the level of attachment. In terms of background of parents’ education and socioeconomic status, fathers’ education made a significant difference in self-identity. 2) Based on this individual mean difference between individual background factor and respondent’s psychological factor, this study further analyzed the relative contribution of each variable to career decision making. For this analysis, two multiple regression analyses were employed. In the first analysis in which career identity was used as a dependent variable, peer attachment was the best predictor of the dependent variable while others such as self-identity and self-efficacy also played significant roles in predicting it. In the second analysis where career decision making was entered as a dependent variable, the peer attachment also contributed the most to the dependent variable. 3) The final analysis of this study culminated in the test of the path model proposed in this dissertation. The path from self-identity, self-efficacy, attachment to parents and peers to career decision making mediated by career identity Is reminiscent of other empirical date discussed in the literature review of this present study. The path from self-identity, self-efficacy, attachment to parents and peers to career decision making mediated by career identity is reminiscent of other empirical date discussed in the literature review of this present study. 4) An important and interesting finding in this causal analysis is the effect of peer attachment. The mediating variable of career identity also has a direct impact on the final exogenous variable of the career decision making of female college students.