The present study was designed to develop the self-esteem program for facilitation of psychological acceptance, to evaluate the effects of the program, and to examine whether psychological acceptance is a major mediator of program effects. For the fir...
The present study was designed to develop the self-esteem program for facilitation of psychological acceptance, to evaluate the effects of the program, and to examine whether psychological acceptance is a major mediator of program effects. For the first purpose of the study to develop the self-esteem program, the program was developed, based on the acceptance and commitment therapy model, also it was organized to select, modify for the purpose of the study activities among the child population activity of the program used in a established. And the development of the program was completed, after it had been demonstrated and, modified in front of experts. The developed program was comprised of the 2 times a week, 45 minute, 6 time. In addition, they were measured in order to verify the effect of the program by using the self-esteem, depression, subjective well-bing, the self-strength awareness report, the measurement of psychological acceptance. The targeted execution of program object was comprised of 2 populations of the general child 4, 5, 6 grade 22 people in which it participates in the after school program. And the control population was composed of the elementary school 6 grade 24 people and progressed a research toward 46 totals.
To validate the effects of the program, a previous measurement was controlled as a impartial person and analysis of the amount of fairness was performed to verify the different between the treatment groups and control groups.
As the result of the study, Soon after performing the program, participants was improved to self-strength awareness, subjective well-bing, the level of psychological acceptance in the meaning as shown reveal self-esteem and psychological health as well the level of depression was reduced in the meaning. The observer, live with children reported that accommodating of the children was improved to be the mining in comparison with former the execution of program. As a result of verifying the mediation effects of psychological acceptance for the second purpose, the mediation effects of acceptance and self-esteem was not shown in the mind but the possibility of the indirect mediate was shown as a result of looking into the mediate-possibility with the self-esteem through the change of subjective well-bing in which the acceptance and the mediation effects are appeared.
The result of this research gave suggestions that the self-esteem improvement program based on psychological acceptance faciliation also it could improve the self-esteem and the psychological health. Moreover, it gave suggestions to be useable for the program in which it prevents the maladjustment problem of the child. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study and the directions of the future study were discussed.