This study was conducted upon a unit of class considering the actual circumstances of our educational environment. The purpose of this study was to verify the usefulness of the interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program to find whether it ...
This study was conducted upon a unit of class considering the actual circumstances of our educational environment. The purpose of this study was to verify the usefulness of the interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program to find whether it improves the social skills and class cohesiveness of middle school girls.The class that I was admitted as a homeroom teacher was selected as the experimental group and another class in the same grade was set as the control group. Each unit of the interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program was proceeded for 45 minutes, the same as general class time of Korean middle schools, thus total 10 units of the program were done twice a week. For the homogeneity verification, T-Verification based on initial test results was processed upon the control group and the experimental group. In addition, ANCOVA was followed after controlling the covariate variable with the initial test scores.The results of interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program show that the experimental group’s scores in the domain of cooperation, empathy, and assertion among the sub-factors of social skills are improved significantly comparing to the control group, but no significant difference was detected in the domain of self control. Meantime, the program significantly improved all the sub-factors of class cohesiveness of the experimental group comparing to the control group in the domain of class atmosphere, inter-reliance, morale, sense of unity, and communication.In conclusion, the interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program held upon a class of middle school girls shows that it improves the social skills and class cohesiveness of the participants, and the interpersonal relationship ability enhancement program is strongly recommendable to make sound relationships with others and improve the class atmosphere at school.