This research was to study the facts that club activities could not be judged as an obstacle to scholastic achievement and it plays a positive role to lift self-esteem regarding to establish ego-identity which is a major development work in adolescenc...
This research was to study the facts that club activities could not be judged as an obstacle to scholastic achievement and it plays a positive role to lift self-esteem regarding to establish ego-identity which is a major development work in adolescence.
This research has been done with 552 students of three academic high schools in the city of Boryung.
The scale of self-esteem used 32 questions composed of seven parts of Kim Hihwa's self-esteem scale except physical ability self-domain, that is,schoolwork and overall self-domain, self-domain related to friends, family-oriented self-domain, body and external features self-domain, characteristic self-domain and self-domain related to teachers. The scale of scholastic achievement was measured by points of the term-end examination of the last semester and the national trial examination.
After collecting questionnaires, the data were analyzed by SPSS 12.0 program while the comparison between teenagers who were engaged in club activities and ones who weren't was done by T examination, and the comparison between self-esteem and scholastic achievement according to frequency and activity career of teenagers who wereengaged in club activities was done by ONE-way ANOVA and Sheffe examination. The consequences of the research are as follows.
First, in the result of a self-esteem comparison between the teenagers who were engaged in club activities andthe ones who weren't, the overall self-esteem of teenagers who were engaged in club activities was measured higher than those of teenagers who weren't, and in the comparison of self-esteem by subordinate scale, the high results came out of schoolwork and overall self-domain and body and external features self-domain.
Second, in the result of the comparison of scholastic achievement between teenagers who were engaged in club activities and the ones who weren't, the teenagers who were engaged in club activities were measured higher scholastic achievement in the term-end examination as well as the trial examination than the ones who weren't.
Third, in the research hypothesisthat the career and frequency of club activities and self-esteem are in proportion to each other, meaningful results appeared in schoolwork and overall self-domain, self-domain related to friends and body and external features self-domain But In the process of finding out the ratio-relation between the frequency for one month's club activities and self-esteem, there was no meaningful result.
Fourth, in the hypothesis that teenagers' career and frequency of club activities and scholastic achievement might not be proportional to one another, all the results were not meaningful. The result of the research is meaningful in respect of that in the comparison between teenagers who are engaged in club activities and the ones who aren't, it gives a positive effect to both self-esteem and scholastic achievement, unlike the existing concerns, although the comparison between career and frequency of club activities was not very meaningful.
In a future research, if it will be done with extensive areas and subjects of investigation and diverse dependent variables, the variousinfluences that club activities affect teenagers will be known more clearly