The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of academic self-efficacy on the relationship between career
barriers and career consciousness maturity of middle school students. To accomplish this purpose, this study focused
on the following questions: Whether there are any gender differences among the three variable factors of career barriers,
career consciousness maturity, and academic self-efficacy; whether there are correlations among the above three variable
factors; whether there are any moderating effects of academic self-efficacy on the relationship between career barriers
and career consciousness maturity, and if any, whether there is a correlation between genders. A questionnaire survey
was conducted to 303 students (148 male students and 155 female students) of two-middle schools which are located
in Suwon-City. In this study, three criteria were used, career barriers, career consciousness maturity and academic
self-efficacy. The analysis of data showed results: first, of all in overall, the male students presented higher
self-confidence than the counterpart, secondly, any meaningful differences were not showed between genders with respect
to the career consciousness maturity, thirdly, there was a meaningful correlation not only between career barriers and
academic self-efficacy, but also between career consciousness maturity and academic self-efficacy, no meaningful
correlation was found between carrier barriers and career consciousness maturity. fourthly, although the effect of
academic self-efficacy was found in the moderating effect, meaningful data were found neither between career barriers
and academic self-efficacy, nor between genders. Based on these results, this study did not attain meaningful results
on the effects of academic self-efficacy on the relationship between career barriers and career consciousness maturity.