Interpersonal Relationship affects adaptation and growth of individuals and the formation of identity. Because the negative interpersonal relationship experiences have a significant impact on an individual's adaptive. Increase of interpersonal relatio...
Interpersonal Relationship affects adaptation and growth of individuals and the formation of identity. Because the negative interpersonal relationship experiences have a significant impact on an individual's adaptive. Increase of interpersonal relationship competency can make life comfortable and happy. It is important for the younger generation not only to make current life happy but also to make future life more rich and harmonious. There are many students worried. Yet, the school is indifferent. It is necessary program that is fun to participate for all students and can be done in the school site.
According to these needs, this study aims at developing a interpersonal relationship competency program(IRCP) to improve interpersonal relationship competency of middle school students, are most likely to experience difficulty in adjusting interpersonal relationship, and verifying its effect.
In this study, a IRCP model based on psychological understanding of interpersonal relationship and elements of youths' activity competency is projected and a IRCP is developed. The model of the program reflected the development that become mature people with interpersonal relationship competency as a hierarchy. This interpersonal relationship competency program model was verified by the educational program development process ADDIE, that is, analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Firstly, In the phase of analysis, learners' developmental characteristics and needs were analyzed and followed by task analysis. Secondly, In the design stage, objects were defined on the basis of task analysis, 'youths' activity competency test' were selected as the program effect analysis tool, and teaching model, teaching and learning strategy, and teaching media were explored. Thirdly, In the next stage : development, teaching materials, that is, program and activity materials were developed. The newly designed program was made up of 8 sessions, 45 minutes per a session, so that it can be carried out discretional times and extra curricula activity time of national curriculum of Korea.
The program was implemented in ○○middle school located Seoul city. The 40 middle school students with low interpersonal relationship competency participated in the program from August to September, 2011 by dividing them into two group, treatment group and controlled one. Each group consisted of 20 middle school students. The students in the control group had no treatment. To examine the effects of program, a pretest before the program and a posttest, satisfaction immediately after the program were administered. A follow-up test was administered after 6 weeks to examine the durability of the effects of the program. In the impression analysis were finally used.
The statistical way of analysis turned out to be a Mann-Whitney U-test to verify homogeneity of the two groups. To verify the effects of programs, Multivariate reported-measure analysis was conducted. The program used for data analysis was SPSS 12.0 for windows.
The results were as follows. Treatment group was significantly higher than the control group in the levels of interpersonal relationship competency. In other competencies, there were no significant difference. It shown that the IRCP was developed properly. It can be said from answer to impression that IRCP influenced positively on self-disclosure, understanding of others, interpersonal communication, relationships. The degree of their satisfaction was high and method in which the program was practiced was acceptable to the students.
Putting these various results together, IRCP systematically developed in this research is significantly effective for the improvement of interpersonal relationship and opportune as IRCP. This study is meaningful in that it is offered necessary program for student by confirming the current level of competency.
In reference to the succeeding studies, it can be suggested to make operational definitions on the elements of IRCP model more concretely for the betterment of IRCP. Secondly, by representing relationship among elements more sophisticatedly, the contents and structure of IRCP could be systematic. Lastly, in connection with program effect, comparison group need to be included to evaluate it more strictly and another elements and various activities are also required to be developed.