A counseling approach is needed for children from multi-cultural family to grow desirably by increasing school-life adjustment level and having the more promoted self-esteem by forming positive self-esteem. This study devised and applied the self-est...
A counseling approach is needed for children from multi-cultural family to grow desirably by increasing school-life adjustment level and having the more promoted self-esteem by forming positive self-esteem. This study devised and applied the self-esteem promotion program for children from multi-cultural family, based on multi-cultural counseling under the recognition of this problem. Thus, the aim was to examine about which effects it has on self-esteem and school-life adjustment level of children from multi-cultural family. This study aimed to establish the following research problems in order to examine effects of self-esteem promotion program.
A. Is there significant difference in self-esteem between the experimental group with execution of 'self-esteem promotion program' and the control group without its execution?
A-1) Is there significant difference in pre-test between the experimental group and the control group?
A-2) Is there significant difference in post-test between the experimental group and the control group?
A-3) Is there significant difference between pre-test and post-test of the experimental group in self-esteem?
B. Is there significant difference in school-life adjustment level between the experimental group with execution of 'self-esteem promotion program' and the control group without its execution?
B-1) Is there significant difference in pre-test between the experimental group and the control group?
B-2) Is there significant difference in post-test between the experimental group and the control group?
B-3) Is there significant difference between pre-test and post-test of the experimental group in school-life adjustment?
For this, the self-esteem promotion program for children from multi-cultural family was composed of totally 10 sessions. It was composed of orientation for the 1st session, self-esteem domain for 2nd-4th session, membership domain for 5-7th session, and ability domain for 8-10th session.
As a result of measuring self-esteem of children from multi-cultural family, who participated in the self-esteem promotion program, there was statistically significant difference between experimental group and control group. As a result of carrying out pre-post tests between experimental group and control group in order to examine difference in each factor of self-esteem of children from multi-cultural family, the statistically significant difference was indicated between experimental group and control group in social self-esteem and school self-esteem, thereby having shown effect of the program.
Also, as a result of measuring the school-life adjustment level of children from multi-cultural family who participated in self-esteem promotion program, there was the statistically significant difference between experimental group and control group. Accordingly, it is identified that the self-esteem promotion program have increased the school-life adjustment level of children from multi-cultural family. This result is consistent with the one of preceding research that asserted self-esteem promotion program could enhance children's school-life adjustment level with saying of enhancing children's school-life adjustment level given carrying out self-esteem promotion program. In addition, as a result of measuring school-life adjustment level in children from multi-cultural family, the experimental group was indicated to have high post-average in sub-domains of teacher relationship, school fellowship, school teaching, and school rule. Thus, the experimental group could be known to have increased more significantly than the control group, which didn't participate in the self-esteem promotion program.