The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the transactional analysis group counseling of self-esteem on middle school students enhancement and to verify the possibility of the transactional analysis counseling of middle school student...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the transactional analysis group counseling of self-esteem on middle school students enhancement and to verify the possibility of the transactional analysis counseling of middle school students.
Following hypotheses were set up according to the theoretical background.
Ⅰ. The students who take part in a transactional analysis program would make a significant self-esteem enhancement as compared with the students who don't take.
Ⅰ- 1. The students who take part in a transactional analysis program would make a significant difference in the area of global self-esteem as compared with control group.
Ⅰ- 2. The students who take part in a transactional analysis program would make a significant difference in the area of social-peer self-esteem as compared with control group.
Ⅰ- 3. The students who take part in a transactional analysis program would make a significant difference in the area of home-parents self-esteem as compared with control group.
Ⅰ- 4. The students who take part in a transactional analysis program would make a significant difference in the area of school-academic self-esteem as compared with control group.
In order to verify these hypotheses, I selected 20 students as random sample among the 113 1st grade students at 'Y' Middle school located in OO Metropolitan city, and then I divided them into two groups : experimental group and control group. Each group consisted of 10(boy 5, girl 5). There were not significant differences between the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group took a transactional analysis program twice a week for 5 weeks. But the control group had no treatment during the period.
After the experiment used in this study was the Self-Esteem Inventory of Choi and Jeon(1993).
The result from this study can be summarized as following : The experimental group made a significant difference in the area of global, social-peer, home-parents self-esteem except school-academic over the control group.
In conclusion, The transactional analysis program is effective on enhancement the self-esteem to the students in middle school and show the possibility of the transactional analysis counseling to the lower from middle school students.