대상관계이론에 따른 예비부모교육프로그램이 자존감 및 부모자질에 미치는 영향 = Effects of the Education Program for Pre-parents on Self-Esteem and Parenting Abilities -focused on Object Relations Theory-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As an infancy is important for early personality development, this study aims at developing an ``education program for pre-parents`` based on ``object relations theory`` and evaluating its effectiveness. The program is designed to prevent the transmission of negative emotions from parents to their children, and to pay attention to child development and proper child care. The program was applied to 22 women, mostly university students or employees living in C city. The subjects were divided into two groups, experimental group of 10 members and control group of 12 members. Experimental group took six 3-hour sessions, while control group took part in pre-and post tests. The two groups turned out to be homogeneous in ``Object Relations Test``. The effectiveness of the program was measured through the comparison of pre- and post-tests in ``Empathy ability test``, ``Self-Esteem test`` and ``Role of parents and child caring attitude questionnaire``. At the end of each session, session evaluation was made about contents and process of the education program. As expected, experimental group showed statistically significant increases on ``self-esteem``, ``parents role and child-care attitude`` after the educational program, while control group didn`t. The same results were confirmed at the qualitative analyses of subjective responses to the program. However, as to the variable ``Empathy ability`` there were no significant changes found except for the positive trend of change in cognitive element of empathy, which was also confirmed through the qualitative analyses. The results implied the education program helped the participants understand better their emotion-expressing styles and get higher self-esteem. The results were discussed in relation to teaching parents-child emotional tie and child-care based on ``Object Relations Theory``.