The aim of this study is to verify the effects of emotional intelligence strengthening program on emotional ability and peer relationship of year3 students.
For aim of the study, the concrete study questions have been set up as follows; firstly, what ...
The aim of this study is to verify the effects of emotional intelligence strengthening program on emotional ability and peer relationship of year3 students.
For aim of the study, the concrete study questions have been set up as follows; firstly, what will be the effects of emotional intelligence strengthening program on improvement in emotional ability of lower grades of primary school·; secondly, what will be the effects of emotional intelligence strengthening program on improvement in peer relationship of lower grades of primary school·. To make attainment on aim of the study, 2classes from the primary school in Kimpo region and one of them has been set as an experiment class where as the other class has been set as a control class. Emotional intelligence strengthening program has been carried into effect as 10times in 5weeks with twice in a week for 40minutes each on students of experiment class.
Refer to the following materials, the applied emotional intelligence strengthening program in this study has been re-organized into 10sessions by the author; 'Strengthening the mind'(Gi-Hyun Kim, Young-Hwan Lee, Sung-Ohk Park, Jong-Hye Han /1998) which is developed based on 4sections of 4standards in 16element-model of emotional ability by Mayer and Salovery(1997), to make improvement in emotional ability of the students; Emotional ability developing program for human nature training of primary school students(Yong-Lin Moon /1999); After school emtional intelligence program(Young-Ja Lee, Jong-Sook Lee, Ohk Lee, Eun-Soo Si, Jung-Wook Lee /2000); Model development study of emotional intelligence education program(Yoon-Jung Kwak /2004); Pathway of primary school education to bring up future by Educational Scientific Reseachers(2006). The content of program has been constructed as focus on activities related to development features and improvement in peer relationship of children, and then utilized. The program has been re-organized in its contents to be composed of activity focused contents like role dramas and games.
Emotional intelligence has been divided into 5kinds of lower range(emotional recognition and expression, empathy, think hastening, emotional utilization, emotional coordination) and transformed into questionnaire surveys. Those surveys has been used as measuring apparatuses, and the measuring data has been collected by applying questionnaire surveys as both pre- and post- censorship to the 2 groups. Based on the each results from 4kinds of lower ranges in emotional intelligence, the statistics program SPSS/ PC use only(Version 13.0) has been used to verify and certify the homogeneity between experiment group and control group. Standards of peer relationship has been performed as post censorship after the performance of the program, and has been performed in same way to the pre censorship in order to verify the effects of the program. Results from analysis are as follows. The important features of results can be summarized as; Firstly, it has been verified that there were meaningful improvement in emotional intelligence for all the year3 students those who attended emotional intelligence strengthening program. And for the lower range, there were effects of improvement in emotional recognition, emotional expression, empathy, emotional coordination and emotional utilization; Secondly, it has been verified that the level of peer relationship in year3 students those who attended emotional intelligence strengthening program, has shown meaningful improvement.
According to the above results, it is verified that emotional intelligence strengthening program has effects on improvement in emotional ability and peer relationship of primary school students. In addition to this, it is certified that if various kinds of emotional intelligence strengthening programs can be performed constantly to the students in school hours and performed after enlarge the educational opportunities by setting up course activity time, after school activity time and spare time; the students will carry on delightful and joyful school life with others.