College students typically devote a great deal of time and energy to the exploration of loving relationships. Usually they must also experience the pain of loss as their relationships end. Their reactions were evident on several levels: low self-conce...
College students typically devote a great deal of time and energy to the exploration of loving relationships. Usually they must also experience the pain of loss as their relationships end. Their reactions were evident on several levels: low self-concepts, physiological, affective, behavioral and congnitive reactions.
The study was conducted to see if the groups counseling program for mitigating these reactions, can decrease college students' negative reactions and increase their low self-concept.
The subjects were 20 college students who volunteered to participate in this program. Those students who experienced the loss of loving were randomly assigned to either experimental or control group. The subjects of the experimental group consisted of 10 students received group counseling for 20 hours while the Control groups consisted another 10 students received no treatment except a series of tests.
The instruments used in this study were Chung's Self-concept test and Won's Symptom-Checklist-90-Revision. Those instruments were administered two times, before and after the group counseling. The differences on the scores of the instruments between pre- and post-test, and the means of the differences, and standard deviations were calculated. These data were analyzed statistically by S.A.S.
The results showed that this groups counseling had effective for decreasing negative reactions and increasing their self-concept of college students who experienced the loss of loving.
This researcher analyzed the tape recoding made during each group counseling session, the logs completed after the final group counseling session finished, and personal interviews conducted one month after the whole session of the group counseling finished.
The conclusions based on the results and discussions were as follows:
1. The group counseling for loving relationships problem-solving is effective for increasing low self-concept of college students who experienced the loss of loving.
2. The group counseling is effective for decreasing negative reactions of college students who experienced the loss of loving.
3. The group counseling seemed more effective for increasing self-understanding and positive self-change through sharing common experience.