When the children do not have a positive peer relationship in school where they spent most of time on daily life, it is likely to cause the negative effects from children to adult in person or society. Thus, to keep and form a satisfactory peer relati...
When the children do not have a positive peer relationship in school where they spent most of time on daily life, it is likely to cause the negative effects from children to adult in person or society. Thus, to keep and form a satisfactory peer relationship, it is necessary to have a group consultative technical training leading to improvement in adaptability to school life by well applying a promotion program for peer relationship that was re-designed to be suitable for upper class students' development, well managing and controlling a variety of angers experienced in life.
With a purpose of identifying the effects of the peer relationship promotion program on anger control and adaptability to school life, the following questions for this study were made.
First, is the promotion program for peer relationship effective in improving the students' anger control?
Second, is the peer relationship promotion program effective in the students' adaptability to school life?
To solve this problem, conducted pre-test of anger control and adaptability to school life toward the 6th grader of H elementary school in W, selected two classes that were verified by homogeneity, designated one class to experiment group and the other class to control group, and conducted the study. A class consisted of 32 students. For an experimental tool, used anger control measurement that is made by Margaret for measuring the student’s anger control in 1994 and Nam Gung Hui Seung adapted it in 1997. For measuring adaptability to school life, used the tool that was made by Choi, Hye Suk(2003) for the elementary school students.
The peer relationship promotion program used in this study referred to the programs used in the pre-study such as peer relationship promotion program designed by Gwak, Hyeo Ryeon(2009), Han, Ok In(2006), Lee, Jung Mi(2005), Yu, Pyeong Suk(2003) and Jang, Hyeon Il(2003), anger control promotion program(Kim, Sung Hyeon, 1999), and special activity guide for the teacher.
Conducted the peer relationship promotion program for experiment group 10 times, 40 to 80 minutes each time, 1 to 2 times a week for 6 weeks, in contrast, the program was not conducted for control group. After the experiment was terminated, the pro-test was conducted to verify the effects of the program and using SPSS/WIN(version 16.0)program, a response to questionnaires was analyzed.
The results of the study are as follows.
First, as a result of measuring the students' anger control who take part in the peer relationship promotion program, the peer relationship promotion program with a high degree of change in total score of anger control in pro-test is more effective in improving the students' anger control than the peer relationship promotion program without the students' participation.
Second, as a result of measuring the students' adaptability to school life who take part in the peer relationship promotion program, it was found that the peer relationship promotion program was more effective in improving the students' adaptability to school life than the peer relationship promotion program without the students' participation, because the total score of adaptability to school life and the degree of score change in sub factors such as relationship with teacher ,attitude for class, and school rule were high.
In view of these results, the peer relationship promotion program enabled that the students formed and maintained the peer relationship in a desirable direction, the students reduced aggressiveness by recognizing a method of dealing with the depressed and unsolved anger, managing and controlling it well. Besides, as relationship with the teachers, attitude for class and school rule were positively formed in school life, adaptability to school life was likely to be improved.
Therefore, in view of a variety of phenomenon’s in a modern society, an importance of the peer relationship is more emerging than ever. As formation of the satisfactory peer relationship is closely related to the students' anger control and adaptability to school life, it is necessary to design programs promoting the peer relationship through the previous curriculum and school site.