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The purpose of this study is to verify the Moderating effects of hope in the relationship between out-of-school adolescents’ career barrier and career preparation behavior. This study examined the interaction between career barrier and hope and its effects on career preparation behavior by selecting career barrier (psychological career barrier and environmental career barrier) and hope (pathway thinking and agency thinking) as a predicting variable and a moderating variable, respectively. To this end, hierarchical analysis was conducted targeting 220 out-of-school adolescents who agreed on and diligently responded to the research. As a result of the study, first, career preparation behavior showed a significantly negative (-) correlation with psychological career barrier, a significantly positive (+) correlation with hope, and no significant correlation with environmental career barrier. Second, pathway thinking and agency thinking turned out to moderate the relationship between out-of-school adolescents’ psychological career barrier and career preparation behavior. In addition, pathway thinking was found to moderate the relationship between environmental career barrier and career preparation behavior. Based on the results, implications and limitations of the study were suggested, and then a follow-up study was proposed.