Analysis of Korean Research Trends on Career Counseling Using Keyword Network Analysis (2015~2022)

Objectives The main words of the research on career counseling were extracted and analyzed, and various variables of career counseling were derived, and the research trends of career counseling were identified, and implications were provided for future research. Methods Among the papers published in the journals published in Korea, 176 papers with ‘career counseling’ as the main theme were collected and 810 main words were derived. The word refinement was performed using the Textom program, and the key keywords were identified through TF, TF-IDF, and N-gram of the Textom program, and analyzed and visualized them. In addition, the importance and influence of each topic were confirmed and analyzed by using the topic modeling analysis, and the results were visualized. Results First, it maintained its 20th paper from 2015 to 2019, then reduced to its 10th paper in 2020. Second, 176 papers were published in 71 journals, and career counseling was studied in various fields such as counseling, career education, and psychology. Third, as a result of examining the frequency of the major keywords of research related to career counseling, it was found that ‘career’, ‘counseling’, ‘group’, ‘group’, ‘education’, ‘decision’, ‘admission’, ‘program’, ‘analysis’, ‘teacher’ were in order. Fourth, the TF-IDF weight analysis results showed that it was almost similar to the ranking of the frequency of appearance. The keywords with relatively high weight were identified as ‘career’, ‘admission’, ‘education’, and ‘group’. Fifth, N-gram analysis confirmed the correlation between the key keywords. It was confirmed that counseling, decision, admission, group, education, identity, preparation, and search appeared in order of keywords that are highly related to career counseling keywords. Sixth, the degree of connection centrality expressed in the network was in the order of ‘career’, ‘counseling’, ‘group’, and ‘education’. Seventh, in the topic modeling analysis, the words such as ‘career’, ‘counseling’, ‘education’ were the main words that constitute the group. Conclusions Based on the results of keyword network analysis of the studies that used domestic career counseling as a variable, various variables for career counseling were derived and the direction of follow-up research was suggested based on this.