The purpose of this study was to examined the effects of a magic program on the depression and the self -esteem in a Community Child center.
*A thesis submitted to the committee of Graduate School, Chungnam National University in a partial fulfill...
The purpose of this study was to examined the effects of a magic program on the depression and the self -esteem in a Community Child center.
*A thesis submitted to the committee of Graduate School, Chungnam National University in a partial fulfillment of the requrements for the degree of Master of Science conferred in
The participants of this study were forty five children who using a Community Child center in K city. To test the effects of the magic program, the participants were divided into two group, an experimental group (n=24) and a controled group (n=21). The research designed was a non-equivalent control group pretest- posttest research designed. The experimental group children participated in a magic program of 8 sessions for 40 minutes per session 1 days a week for 8 weeks.
The instruments of measurement used in this study were the Children‘s Depression Inventory(Kovacs, 1981) and Self Esteem Scale(Park, 2001). Data were analyzed by using χ2-test, t-test and ANCOVA with SPSS 14.0 program.
The major finding of this study are as follows:
1. The score of depression decreased significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group.
2. The score of self-esteem incresed significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group.
This study provides evidence for the benefical effect of a magic program in communiy child center.
The results indicate that magic program could be adequately used with children using Community Child center to help and to improve quality of life.