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In order to analyze the relationship between desired careers and character strengths, the data were collected from 1520 elementary students in range of 4th to 6th grade through survey. The results were as follows: First, the data indicated that students’ desired careers were the athlete, scholar, artist, doctor, cook, and teacher in the order of popularity. In every students’ desired career type showed RAISEC (Realistic, Artistic, Investigative, Social, Enterprising and Conventional type). However, male and female tended to follow RIEASC and ARSIEC which showed the gender differences in the study. Second, the commonly high character strengths were love, gratitude, vitality and love of learning in both genders. Optimism and forgiveness ranked high in male and kindness and social intelligence ranked high in female. Love and gratitude ranked high in all desired career types, and the other character strengths ranking high in each type as follows: Realistic and Enterprising types showed high scores on vitality, love of learning and optimism; Investigative type showed high scores on love of learning, creativity and optimism; Artistic type showed high scores on vitality, forgiveness and optimism; Social type showed high scores on kindness, love of learning and forgiveness; Conventional type showed a score on vitality, kindness and social intelligence. Third, the group with desired career tends to score higher in character strengths than the group without desired career. The survey shows the differences in character strengths depending on the desired career type; Investigative type to score higher in creativity and curiosity; Social type to score higher in citizenship, appreciation of beauty, spirituality; Enterprising type to score higher in love of learning, wisdom, social intelligence, bravery, persistence, prudence and leadership. Based on the above results, we discuss the implications for career counseling utilizing the character strengths for elementary school students.

한국어

초등학생의 희망직업과 성격강점의 관계를 분석하기 위하여 전국의 초등학교 4, 5, 6학년 1520명에게 설문조사를 실시하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초등학생의 희망직업은 운동선수, 학자, 연예인, 의사, 요리사, 교사, 예술가 순으로 높은 선호를 나타냈다. 희망직업 유형은 전체 RAISEC(실재형-예술형-탐구형-사회형-주도형-사무형) 순, 남학생은 RIEASC 순, 여학생은 ARSIEC 순으로 빈도가 높아 성별에 따른 분포 차이를 나타냈다. 둘째, 초등학생의 상위 성격강점은 사랑, 감사, 활력, 학구열이 남녀 모두 공통적으로 높았고, 남학생은 낙관성과 용서가 여학생은 친절성과 사회지능이 높게 나타났다. 희망직업유형별 상위 성격강점은 모든 집단에서 사랑과 감사가 높게 나타났고, 실재형과 주도형은 활력, 학구열, 낙관성이, 탐구형은 학구열, 창의성, 낙관성이, 예술형은 활력, 용서, 낙관성이, 사회형은 친절성, 학구열, 용서가, 사무형은 활력, 친절성, 사회지능이 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 희망직업이 있는 집단은 희망직업이 없는 집단보다 모든 성격강점이 높게 나타났으며, 희망직업유형에 따라 성격강점에 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 유형별 비교 결과 탐구형은 창의성과 호기심이, 사회형은 시민의식, 심미안, 영성이, 주도형은 학구열, 지혜, 사회지능, 용감성, 끈기, 신중성, 리더십이 다른 유형보다 높게 나타났다. 이상의 결과를 바탕으로 초등학생의 진로지도 및 성격강점을 활용한 진로상담에 주는 시사점을 논의하였다.