The purpose of this research is to reduce psychological and spiritual anxiety of the prisoners by looking into the influence of the counseling preaching program. This study starts on the basis of the point at issue that all human being can commit the ...
The purpose of this research is to reduce psychological and spiritual anxiety of the prisoners by looking into the influence of the counseling preaching program. This study starts on the basis of the point at issue that all human being can commit the sins and blunder. Therefore, it is the aim of this study to help the audience through counseling preaching, in counseling, curable and evangelical, that can settle the problems, with a viewpoint of the audience. With this aim of the study, four hypotheses are set as follows:
Hypothesis 1. there will be a significant difference in a degree of anxiety in accordance with general individuality of the prisoners.
Hypothesis 1-1, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance with sex.
Hypothesis 1-2, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance with age.
Hypothesis 1-3, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance with educational level.
Hypothesis 1-4, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance of the married life.
Hypothesis 1-5, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance with remaining term to serve.
Hypothesis 1-6, there will be a significant difference in the anxiety of the state and trait in accordance with prison term.
Hypothesis 2. there will be a significant difference in a degree of anxiety in accordance with possession of the Christian faith of the prisoners.
Hypothesis 2-1, there will be a significant difference in the state anxiety in accordance with possession of the Christian faith of the prisoners.
Hypothesis 2-2, there will be a significant difference in the trait anxiety in accordance with possession of the Christianity of the prisoners.
Hypothesis 3. there will be a significant difference to the prisoners who attend the counseling preaching program than the prisoners who don't attend.
Hypothesis 3-1, there will be a significant reduce of the degree of the state anxiety from the prisoners who attend the counseling preaching program.
Hypothesis 3-2, there will be a significant reduce of the degree of the trait anxiety from the prisoners who attend the counseling preaching program.
In order to verify the above-mentioned hypotheses, 107 prisoners in both sexes at YeaJoo Penitentiary were examined. The Korean version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI) of Spielberger was adopted as the measuring tool for this examination. Objects of the Examination were classified in two groups- treatment group and control group- and examined pre-test and post-test.
The treatment group had being applied with the counseling preaching program to reduce the anxiety of the state and trait for 8 weeks. Statistical analysis of the outcome was performed by the electronic computer center of the Sungkyul University with SPSS 11.0.
The results of this study are as follows:
First, from examination of the difference of the anxiety in accordance with the individuality of the prisoners, the result showed no difference of the anxiety in accordance with the individuality of the prisoners, such as sex, educational level, married life, remaining term to serve and prison term. There was one exception, that was to show significantly higher trait anxiety among the ages of 20es than 30es. It was interpreted that they had more anxiety for the matters after release from the prison, such as marriage, course of life, adopting to the society and social recognition, etc.. The reason of no significant difference in accordance with the sex was considered because men or women in the prison has same restriction of the freedom of reside and action as long as they are in the prison. Therefore, there was no difference of psychological affects shown between men and women, because of the anxiety of the special facility of the prison. The reason not to have any difference of the state-anxiety in accordance with age was considered because the fact of serving the prison term gave equal amount of the anxiety of current state through all ages. And the reason not to have any difference of the anxiety in accordance with educational level of the prisoners was considered because there was no factors to give any anxiety depend on educational level in the prison system. The penitentiary must sublate any guiding administration to discriminate for educational level whether primary graduate or college graduate, and respect the equal right, the citizen's basic right. The reason of no significant difference in accordance with married life was considered because there was not much affects from the married life to the prisoner who was separated from the family. And the reason of no significant difference in accordance with the remaining term to serve was considered because the remaining term to serve with no freedom, whether one day or longer, already gave enough impact to the prisoners. The reason of no significant difference in accordance with prison term was considered because the impact from a duration to serve in the prison was insignificant to the prisoners' anxiety, as the case of remaining term to serve.
Second, from examination of the difference of the anxiety in accordance with possession of the Christian faith. the result was no significant difference of the anxiety of state and trait in accordance with possession of the Christian faith. Only the trends that the prisoners with the Christian faith had lower score of the anxiety of state and trait was verified. The reason of no significant difference was considered because the actual anxiety to stay in the prison was almost equal to the Christian prisoners and non-Christian prisoners.
The reason of lower average score of the Christian prisoners, although there was no significant difference, was considered because there was a psychological fact helped them to confess their sins in repentance and overcome the fears by trust in God more.
Third, from examination of the effects of the counseling preaching program to influence a reducement of the prisoners' anxiety, the result verified the significant effects when the counseling preaching program was applied to the prisoners. The significant difference from the pre-test and post-test for the anxiety of state and trait among the treatment group verified that the application of the counseling preaching program played an important role for anxiety reduce of the prisoners. Therefore the counseling preaching program is effective to reduce the prisoners' anxiety significantly.
As this study has shown, the counseling preaching program is consisted with a form of worship, major essence of the Christian faith, such as Bible reading, preaching, praising and prayer. The counseling preaching program in this study was schemed especially for reducing the prisoners' anxiety.
As the conclusion from all these results, this study proves that, in order to reduce the prisoners' anxiety who are serving their prison terms now, positive believing experience through the counseling preaching program is more effective and important than the issues of possession of the Christian faith and individuality of the prisoners. Therefore, it is desirable to sublate the efforts to change psychological reverse function of the prisoners to genuine function in accordance with the issues of individuality or possession of the Christian faith of the prisoners, but to develope and apply various counseling preaching programs with the varieties of subjects and aims.