Due to the rapid change in the cultural environment of Korea following the formation of information-oriented and open society, many problems are being reported including the moral identity crisis due to the chaos in the value system and the thinking p...
Due to the rapid change in the cultural environment of Korea following the formation of information-oriented and open society, many problems are being reported including the moral identity crisis due to the chaos in the value system and the thinking process based on materialism and the loss of ego. This social phenomenon makes a negative impact on the proper formation of personality for teenage students and becomes a cause for juvenile delinquency and their problematic behavior. According to the previous research, musical treatments, sports programs, and mass art treatments had a positive effect in changing the personality of problematic adolescents and improving their desire for achievement, stability, independence, and self-actualization.
Teaism Education presented in this study will be examined to verify whether it can make a great educational impact on the problematic adolescents by purifying their mentality and emotion, fostering love and caring for others, enhancing their self-discipline and improving their etiquette for respecting other people.
In order to do so, Teaism Education must acquire the proper programs that can effectively react to the personality change of the problematic adolescents, and more than anything, the purpose of this study focused on providing a healthy direction for helping their proper formation of ego and establishing their value system.
As written above, in order to achieve the purpose of the study to promote a proper change in the personality of the problematic adolescents, the study considerations were set as follows.
First, what is the effect of Teaism Education on changing the personality of the problematic adolescents?
Second, how do the problematic adolescents evaluate their own change in attitude after receiving Teaism Education?
Third, how do the teachers evaluate the change in the attitude of the problematic adolescents after receiving Teaism Education?
This study followed the below procedures for examining the study problems.
First, the study samples were selected from the students who were taken into the Adolescent Protection and Education Center. Ten students who wanted to take Teaism Education were selected as the experimental group, and ten students who will not receive Teaism Education were selected as the control group.
The etiquette teacher of the Adolescent Center was admitted into the class, and two teachers for Teaism and etiquette conducted Teaism Education.
Second, the device for measurement was chosen from the behavioral development test of Korea Personality Development Center and the personality measurement test of Korea Guidance, and 10 questions were assigned in each area of etiquette, care, self-discipline, and emotional stability, making up total 40 questions to be used in this study.
Third, the collected data was analyzed using SPSS program. Paired t-test was conducted in order to examine the difference in personality change between the experimental group and the control group, after and before carrying out Teaism Education. Also, nine questions were prepared in order to survey the students and teachers about the evaluation of their own personality change and the evaluation of Teaism Education, respectively. This questionnaire was analyzed using the frequency and percentile about each question.
Fourth, the study results of analyzing the data above are as follows.
In the experimental group, all areas except the emotional stability showed a statistically significant improvement after conducting Teaism Education. Therefore, the adolescents who received Teaism Education had a more positive effect in general than the adolescents who did not. This study confirmed that Teaism Education has a positive effect in improving personality in the area of etiquette, self-discipline, and care.
In the students’ evaluation of their personality change after taking Teaism Education, they believed that their personality underwent a positive change in the area of self-discipline and etiquette. Through this result, it can be seen that Teaism Education has a great educational effect which promotes proper physical and mental attitude for practicing the basic manners in life. Also, in the teachers’ evaluation of the students’ change in their attitude after receiving Teaism Education, it was seen that the teachers were satisfied with Teaism Education as a correction and enlightenment education for the adolescents in the area of improving the order and the basic habit of life. Therefore, it can be seen that Teaism Education brings a positive change to the attitude of the problematic adolescents in the area of emotional stability, etiquette, care, and discipline, and Teaism Education has a sufficient value as a personality education in the mental, behavioral, social, and physical aspect.