A Narrative Study on Young Women’s Job Anxiety and Counseling Experiences

October 31, 2021  |  Vol.7, No.10  |  PP. 77-88  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Eun-kyung Lee, Department of Human Service Education, Kwangshin University, South Korea

Mi-Na Lee, Welfare Counseling Convergence Department, Kwangshin University, South Korea

KEYWORDS:

Young Job Seekers, Job Search Experience, Job Anxiety, Job Anxiety, Narrative Research

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to conduct story therapy on young job seekers with depression and job anxiety, and investigate on their experiences. This study took place once a week from December 2020 to March 2021, for a total of 10 sessions with 50-60 minutes per session. The research results are as follows. First, young job seekers with depression and job anxiety came to understand their fears and anxieties about job-seeking activities in story therapy and seek out job search motivations in the process of self-exploring. Second, young job seekers with depression and job anxiety could find dysfunctional beliefs that lead to depression and job anxiety during the counseling process. In addition, the participant was able to recognize her own situation by thinking about the cycle of negative emotions. In other words, through the counseling process, the participant was able to safely open and take care of herself, and gained energy for job search. The goal of this study is to contribute in providing basic data on preventing and treating psychological problems of young job seekers with the increasing unemployment rate and the experiences young people with depression and job insecurity.

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Citations:

APA:
Lee, E.-K., Lee, M.-N. (2021). A Narrative Study on Young Women’s Job Anxiety and Counseling Experiences. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, 7(10), 77-88. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2021.10.07

MLA:
Lee, Eun-kyung, et al. “A Narrative Study on Young Women’s Job Anxiety and Counseling Experiences.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, vol. 7, no. 10, 2021, pp. 77-88. APJCRI, http://fucos.or.kr/journal/APJCRI/Articles/v7n10/7.html.

IEEE:
[1] E.-K. Lee, M.-N. Lee, “A Narrative Study on Young Women’s Job Anxiety and Counseling Experiences.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), FuCoS, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 77-88, October 2021.

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