The purpose of this study is to confirm the effect of a group counseling program on child achievement motivation and school life adaptability from an experimental group of 11 third and fourth grade students from multi-cultural families and a control g...
The purpose of this study is to confirm the effect of a group counseling program on child achievement motivation and school life adaptability from an experimental group of 11 third and fourth grade students from multi-cultural families and a control group of 11 fourth grade students from general families in an A elementary school in Gyeonggi province.
In order to examine the effect of the group counseling program, a pre-test was conducted on achievement motivation and school life adaptability prior to the treatment. In addition, ten 40-minute sessions of the counseling program was performed twice a week to the experiment group during the five weeks from March 28 to April 29, 2011.
The instrument used to measure achievement motivation was from Ban, Han-sook (2005), which she revised from Yoo, Chang-yeoul (1985) and Chung, Jong-jin (1991) and originated from Herman (1970). The instrument used to measure school life adaptability was from Kim, Ah-young (2002), which she standardized school life adaptability scale. In order to investigate the pre-post difference of achievement motivation and school life adaptability between the experiment and the control group, the author computed the averages and the standard deviations and performed the ANCOVA, using the pre-test results as the covariable.
The results are as follows:
First, the experiment group exhibited a significant difference from the achievement motivation scores than the control group. This suggests a significant effect of the group counseling program on the achievement motivation of children from multi-cultural families.
Second, the experiment group showed a significant difference from the school life adaptability scores than the control group. This suggests a significant effect of the group counseling program on the school life adaptability of children from multi-cultural families.
Therefore, the group counseling program is effective in bringing positive change in achievement motivation and school life adaptability from children with multi-cultural background.