2019, Vol.5, No.4

한국청소년활동연구 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.18

pISSN : 2635-9111 / eISSN : 2765-4117
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kyara

The purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of preliminary youth leaders in their youth-related service activities. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 college students, and their types of service activities were explored through their lively voices and experiences. Prospective youth leaders showed the following types of youth volunteering activities. First, self-leadership. Prospective youth leaders planned, conducted, operated, and evaluated the program through volunteer activities, and through this achievement experience, they organize clubs with other college students, participate actively in other activities, set goals and motivate them. Second, it was an opportunity to build relationships. Prospective youth leaders started volunteering with the recommendation of professors and institutional managers, and continued volunteering by maintaining relationships with senior juniors and colleagues. Third, it was an opportunity to explore and decide on career. For prospective youth leaders, volunteering was not just a service but an opportunity to explore careers and find their aptitudes as youth leaders. Most of the participants were able to learn what youth affairs were doing through volunteering opportunities and find their aptitudes. Fourth, the college students participating in the study “penetration” what the youth director's work was and experience the “limitation” of the work through volunteer work. Prospective youth leaders have come to understand the limitations of seeing the reality of youth leaders who have not learned in college and recognizing the limitations of their work. Fifth, despite the limitations of the current system, research participants were able to gain hands-on experience through volunteer activities. This experience gave them the opportunity to know the importance of field practice and to understand the culture and psychology of youth. Based on these findings, this study provides implications for the training process of universities or institutions that train youth leaders and suggests the need for follow-up studies.

The purpose of this study was to explore relationships among jo b overload, employment instability, pay dissatisfaction, emotional exhaustion, occupational turnover intention of youth workers. A structural equation model was presented to describe the hypothetical causal relationships among variables. In the model, emotional exhaustion of youth workers was assumed as a mediate variable. 571 Youth workers were responded to the questionnaires which was conceived to obtain the measured of five latent variables(job overload, employment instability, pay dissatisfaction, emotional exhaustion, occupational turnover intention). The major findings of this study were as follows. First, emotional exhaustion had positive effects on occupational turnover intention of youth workers. Second, emotional exhaustion was affected directly by job overload, employment instability, pay dissatisfaction, emotional exhaustion, occupational turnover intention. Third, youth workers' occupational turnover intention was affected directly by employment instability, pay dissatisfaction. Fourth, indirect effects of job overload, employment instability and pa y dissatisfaction were mediated by emotional exhaustion. All this findings were discussed for youth work organizations and research.

The purpose of this study is to confirm the effects of Korea Achievement Award program, youth' psycho-social maturity, a self-growth program that seeks dreams through the process of achieving their own goals. To that end, 100 elementary and middle school students in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province were organized into experimental groups and control groups. Experimental group youths participated in the Korea Achievement Award program and carried out the co-operation process. The controlled group youth did not participate in the Korea Achievement Award program. The analysis results are as follows. First, there was a significant increase in psycho-social maturity of youths who participated in the Youth Self-Protection Award program. Second, participation in the Korea Achievement Award program and psycho-social maturity of youths were interactive. Third, Korea Achievement Award program was approaching a large effect size (Cohen's d), and aesthetic sensibility had an intermediate effect. In the future, there will be a need to structure the Korea Achievement Award program, which is more effective in improving psycho-social maturity of youths.