Exploring the Knowledge Structure of Creativity and Career Research: A Keyword Network Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the research trunds of creative career development studies and suggest a future direction for the studies by exploring the knowledge structure of creativity and career research. A total of 494 keywords were selected from 2211 research papers conducted in South Korea during the past 20 years from 2002 to 2021 that simultaneously considered creativity and career. Then, a network analysis including centrality and community analysis. Results showed that the keywords with high degree centralicy were cretivity, job satisfaction, job crafting, job outcomes, creative behavior, and so on. The keywords with high betweenness centrality were creativity, job satisfaction, job crafting, college students, creative characteristics, and so on. In the results of community analysis, five subgroups were formed focusing on mathematics creativity (isolated node), creative problem solving (elementary students, career development, career resilience etc.), creativity (college students, creative characteristics, career maturicy, career preparation behavior etc.), early childhood teachers (job stress, teaching creativity, teaching efficacy etc.), and job satisfaction (job outcomes, job crafting, creative behavior, job engagement etc.), respevtively. There were differences in research subjects, creativity forms, and career development factors that each subgroup was dealing with, and these differences provide importang implications for exploring the direction of creative career development studies according to the characteristics of individial subgroups. Theoretical and practical implications and future directions were discussed.