The purposes of this study were to examine the factors of psychological maladjustment experienced by adolescents for educational welfare, and to analyze the effects of a self-growth group counseling program applied to horticultural activities, which have been considered effective social alternatives, on adolescents’ self-esteem, ego-resilience, and stress change. For these purposes, the program was executed for 8 th -grade students at Y Middle School through 10 sessions, once a week, and 100 minutes per session during the period from 5 September to 14 November in 2014. As to difference between before and after the program, when the horticultural activity program based on self-growth group counseling was applied, the control group included many negative ranks in self-esteem before and after, and thus there wasn’t significant change, but all the subjects in the experimental group showed highly significant improvement (P=0.005). As to changes in ego-resilience, both the control group and the experimental group included many positive ranks and the changes were significant, but the significance was somewhat higher in the experimental group than in the control group (P=0.007). A decrease in stress is indicated by a large number of negative ranks. The control group had many positive ranks, and thus the change was not significant. In the experimental group, all the subjects had a negative rank and therefore the change was highly significant (P=0.005). If such a horticultural activity program is applied to adolescents through a longer period, it is believed to bring a positive change in them.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in self-encouragement, self-discouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being in a characteristics of athletes with disabilities and to examine the relationships of those variables among them. Methods: A total of 324 athletes with physical disabilities (male=208, female=115) completed self-encouragement and discouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being measure. Results: Participants who have an affiliation, full-time, salary, athlete’s career, and motivation had positively higher on self-encouragement, self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being. However, self-discouragement and negative self-esteem were higher affiliation, low career, and motivation by others. Self-encouragement had positively influence the self-esteem, self-management, psychological well-being, whereas self-discouragement had negatively affect on the self-esteem, self-management. Moreover, the self-encouragement showed a positive indirect effect on the psychological well-being and self-discouragement appeared a negative indirect effect on the psychological well-being. Conclusion: It is required to necessity a positive self-encouragement of the disabled athletes because self-awareness and beliefs affects their behavior of individuals.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of creative horticultural activities on low-income class children’s self-esteem and stress coping behavior. For this purpose, 10 children were sampled from low-income class children using H Community Child Center in K City, and creative horticultural activities were applied to them two sessions a week and a total of 12 sessions from July 4 to August 22, 2014. Based on the factors of creativity in horticultural activities, creative horticultural activities were designed to induce fluency through learning the importance and use of plants, flexibility through observing the growth of plants, originality through breeding plants, elaborateness through decorating with plants, and sensitivity through classifying plants. Ultimately, the activities were designed to induce positive changes in low-income class children’s emotional development. For understanding the effectiveness of the creative horticultural activity program, this study assessed the children before and after the creative horticultural activities using a self-esteem scale and a stress coping scale. The results of assessment were as follows. First, the children’s self-esteem level was enhanced significantly from 27.9±3.9 before the activities to 30.7±2.3 after on the average. Their stress coping behavior was improved significantly from 49.0±5.6 before the horticultural activities to 54.3±5.2 after. In particular, significant changes were observed in active coping behavior and socialsupport- seeking coping behavior. These results suggest that creative horticultural activities for low-income class children have positive effects on their emotional development.

This study was conducted to investigate of horticultural activity programs (HAPS) on self-esteem and school life adaption of juvenile. As one group pre-post designed trial, ten participants (5 males, 5 females) were recruited to participate in 16 HAPS within 4 months. The programs were performed 1 time per week from September 3 to December 17. The HAPS were composed of making vegetable garden, making herb candle, planting a floricultural crops, and pressed flower. The self-esteem and school life adaption were evaluated to examine the effects of HAPS between before and after. In the self-esteem, mean value of juvenile showed high score 52.10 after HAPS compared to 42.60 before. And, self-esteem of all subjects were significantly improved regardless of juvenile. In school life adaption, mean value of juvenile was higer score of 71.00 after HAPS than that of 46.60 before HAPS. And, school life adaption of all subjects were significantly improved regardless of students.

이 연구는 체육활동이 학교폭력과 관련성이 깊은 자아존중감, 공격성에 미치는 효과에 대해 기존의 다양한 체육활동에 대한 실험연구 또는 비교연구 논문을 활용하여 메타분석 방법으로 평가하였다. 개별 이펙트 사이즈 계산을 위한 프로그램으로 Jared DeFife에 의해 개발된 Excel 프로그램을 사용하였다. Hedges & Olkin‘s g를 산출 한 후, 효과크기의 평균과 매개효과 유의 성은 SPSS 메타분석 Macro Program을 통해 분석하였다. 공격성과 관련하여 14개 논문이 연 구에 포함되었고, 이로부터 총 29개 효과크기가 수집되었다. 자아존중감과 관련해서는 19개 논 문으로부터 45개 효과크기가 산출되었다. 결론적으로, 체육활동은 공격성 감소와 자아존중감 향상에 효과가 있었다. 공격성에 대한 효과크기 평균값은 -.74, 자아존중감에 대한 평균 효과크 기는 .36이었다. 또한, 체육활동은 공격성 하위 개념 중 신체적 공격성(-1.06)과 적대감(-1.52) 감소에 더 효과적으로 나타났고, 체육활동은 가족(.24), 학교(.08) 자아존중감 보다 사회(.47), 총 체적(.42) 자아존중감을 향상시키는데 더 효과적 이었다. 공격성과 자아존중감 모두에서 학교 급, 체육활동 유형, 연구방법 매개변인의 효과를 관찰할 수 있었다. 공격성과 자아개념에 대한 체육활동의 효과는 모두 중학교, 사회 체육활동, 조사연구를 활용한 연구에서 높게 나타났다.

본 연구는 회상요법을 적용한 원예치료 프로그램이 시설거주에 거주하는 치매노인의 자아존중감과 삶의 질에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보기 위해 실시되었다. 연구에 참여한 총 대상자는 21명이었으며 프로그램 사전과 사후로 측정하였다. 삶의 질의 변화는 원예치료 실시 전 평균 24.6점에서 실시 후 평균 29.8점으로 유의하게 향상되었다. 자아존중감의 변화도 원예치료 실시 전 평균 22.7점에서 실시 후 평균 31.0점으로 유의하게 향상되는 것을 볼 수 있었다. 원예활동평가도 참여성, 관심과 조력성, 언어소통능력, 대인관계능력, 인지 및 문제 해결능력, 운동 지각 능력, 자아개념 및 주체성, 욕구 충동 능력, 숙련도와 작업 적응력 등 9개 영역에서 통계적으로 유의한 향상을 보였다. 이상과 같이 회상요법을 적용한 프로그램으로 치매노인들이 쉽게 작업할 수 있는 실내 활동을 실시한 결과 치매노인의 자아존중감과 삶의 질의 향상에 효과가 있었다고 판단된다.