This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of self-esteem promotion program of adolescents with mild delinquency on self-esteem and self-care agency. The subjects of this study were 40 in adolescents with signs of mild delinquency of th...
This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of self-esteem promotion program of adolescents with mild delinquency on self-esteem and self-care agency. The subjects of this study were 40 in adolescents with signs of mild delinquency of the third grade of middle School who reside in K city.
The study design was a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design, The Self-Esteem Promotion program was used as the experimental treatment from August 30 until September 29, 1999. The research subjects were assigned to experimental(20 adolescents with mild delinquency) and control(20 adolescents with mild delinquency) groups.
The instruments used for this study were Self-Esteem Scale developed by Coopersmith were modified by Choi et al. The Self-care Agency Scale developed by Geden et a1 translated by So were modified by this researcher.
The Self-Reported Delinquency scale used by Moon was used by this researcher and used for data collection.
The collected data were analyzed by the Chi-square test, paired t-test using SPSS/PC+ program.
The results are as follows :
1. Hypothesis 1 : "The group given the self-esteem promotion program will have a higher self-esteem score then after the experimental treatment." was rejected(t= -1.33, p= .199). But, home self-esteem in subordinate areas showed a significant difference(t= -2.82, p= .011).
2. Hypothesis 2 : "The group given the self-esteem promotion program will have a higher self-esteem score then after the experimental treatment." was supported(t= -2.84, p= .010).
3. Hypothesis 3 : "The group given the self-esteem promotion program will have a lower self-reported delinquency score then after the experimental treatment." was supported(t= 4.81, p= .000).
On the basis of this survey research, I'd like to suggest that we should study various kind of factors which influences the self-esteem in order to promote the self-esteem of adolescents with Mild Delinquency, and that to promote of adolescents health, we should study how to teach them the ways of self-care agency.