In the past, the goal of our educational system was to focus on educating people to be more desirable human being through a harmonious life with a member of the society, also, the educational purpose and process, and teaching method, and all relating ...
In the past, the goal of our educational system was to focus on educating people to be more desirable human being through a harmonious life with a member of the society, also, the educational purpose and process, and teaching method, and all relating to education were directly related to humanity. In fact, there were many development programs so far to improve adolescent personality, but, it was not easy to achieve the goal of the education in circumstances with no establishment of the conception of personality and education.
However, in order to accustom to the rapidly changing modern society for modern adolescent, not only knowledge and technology are required, but also required, psychological and social maturity that satisfy a positive psychological character and a healthy character. Above all, personality education plays the most important role in order to achieve this maturity. Therefore, a lot of effort on the continuous study of personality education must be poured into and it is highly important and necessary to find what type of personality should be brought up and also what type of education program should be developed and applied to form a positive character. The study fields of humanity can be variously classified into character, personality, individuality, sociality, morality, etc. Also, they can be largely divided into psychological field relating to individual growth and social field relating to the relationship with others. For the best result, the proper education must be chosen and applied according to each purpose of personality development.
This study has set the purpose of personality education to be the enhancement of psychological and social matureness of adolescents by classifying the personality development of adolescents into fields of psychological and social maturity. Although, there are various contents of education that fit into the purpose of personality education, it is assumed that there must be most suitable education that influences the psychological and social maturity of adolescents. To prove this, in this study, self-regulation ability development education has been organized for psychological maturity and interpersonal relations ability development education has been organized for social maturity as the education to fit in to each field. In addition, an observation has been done to find out how each field influences the psychological and social maturity of adolescents.
The purpose of this study is the following. That is, firstly, to verify what the influences are on psychological and social maturity from the composition of personality education, depending on different purposes after organizing self-regulation ability development education and interpersonal relations ability development education.
Secondly, it is to prove what influence is made to the subfactor of psychology and maturity for adolescents from the sub-purpose that forms personality education.
Finally, it is to suggest a proposal and basic material to search and develop the most efficient personality education for humanity development in adolescents through the results of the study.
The main results of this research are the following. First of all, immediately after the completion of personality education program that compares the experimental group and the comparison group, a noticeable increase on the psychological and social matureness has been showed for the adolescents in the experimental group. Especially, the adolescents who participated in self-regulation ability development education program tended to have a larger improvement in psychological matureness than social matureness, whereas the adolescents who participated in interpersonal relations ability development education program tended to have a larger improvement in social matureness than psychological matureness. This supports the idea that proper education contents must be organized according to the purpose of humanity development of each field.
Secondly, the group who participated in self-regulation ability development education has showed an increase in various sub-factors that form psychological matureness, which excludes gender identity of adolescents. Especially, positive thoughts, emotional stability, self identity, self respect, contribution and volitional power were greatly influenced than any other sub-factors. On the other hand, there was not much impact on the sub-factors like self efficacy, endurance, challenge, emotional sensibility and there was almost no difference on gender identity before and after the experimental education was operated. Thus, it is considered that self-regulation ability development education was influential on sub-factors respectively that form psychological matureness so that it is confirmed that the expected factors of self-regulation ability development education in this study are identical.
Thirdly, there was an increase on the sub-factors that formed social matureness of teenagers within the experimental group who participated in interpersonal relations ability development education program. Especially, communication ability and social adaptation ability were influenced more, compared to the other sub-factors. Whereas, relationship skills, self management, social competence, leadership skills, social harmonization, school life, regulation and group awareness were not significantly affected. Therefore, once again, it is confirmed that the expected goal of educational contents organized in this study is identical to the assumed results that the human relationship ability development education is influential on the sub-factors that form social matureness respectively.
Shortly, the point and implication on this study is the following. Firstly, in this study, through a calculated defining of humanity and personality education, the filed of humanities for adolescents has been accurately regulated. Therefore, it is highly believed that this study has left great increase on the confidence as well as the proof of previous studies.
Secondly, by the participation of the 128 number of adolescents in the personality education program which is considered relatively sufficient number for this study, the possibility of generalization of the research has been enhanced.
Thirdly, it has been confirmed that the proper educational contents for personality education must be organized through comparing the psychological and social matureness of each adolescent who participated in the program after organizing various personality education programs that can be properly selected depending on the point and the focus of the field.
Once again, personality education is an education that is highly influential on maturity of an adolescent psychologically and socially. From the analysis of this study, it can be discovered that the participation of the education program can bring valid influences on the psychological and social maturity for adolescents. However, expecting that all personality educations will improve both psychological and social matureness simultaneously would not be very reasonable.
Although the sub-factors that form psychological and social maturity can be both influenced according to the educational contents, mainly, educational contents focused on psychological maturity was more influential on the development of psychological field, and similarly, the ones on social maturity was more on the social field. Thus, it is not always wise to recommend and lead to participate adolescents to the personality education program and expects that it will always draw a definite, positive effectiveness.
Therefore, education that has proper educational purposes in the humanity development field must be organized and processed for the psychological and social development for teenagers. To support this, the core field that composes humanities must be differentiated and categorized, afterwards, the most suitable customized education system must be developed and finally, it must be properly applied.