This study was designed to investigate whether self-determination abilities of students with mental retardation (MR) can be improved when they meet social problems. This research was conducted by practicing the social skill training.
The concrete pur...
This study was designed to investigate whether self-determination abilities of students with mental retardation (MR) can be improved when they meet social problems. This research was conducted by practicing the social skill training.
The concrete purposes of this study are as follows:
First, what is the effect on self-control in self-determination abilities when the social skill training program is applied to students with MR.
Secondly, what is the effect on a psychological capability in self-determination abilities when the social skill program training is applied to students with MR.
The subjects of this study attended a high school of a special school located at Seoul. 3 students were selected for this experiment through enough prior consultation and observation to see the effects of this program. These subjects had to receive help or had showed passive attitudes with inappropriate responses when they expressed their thoughts. However, these students did show their basic personal management.
The training program applied to this study was selected a program which have relation with self-determination in the social skill training program. The Korean version (Kim, J. K., 2000) of "The Arc's Self-Determination Scale Adolescent Version (Wehmeyer, 1995)" was used as an examination tool. This tool was used as a self-determination ability test for assessing the improvement of self-thoughts determination ability.
This study focused on a self-control and a psychological capability of self-determination abilities, and it inspected the effects on the improvement of self-determination abilities by applying the social skill training program to students with MR. 3 students in experimental group went through programs of 21 sessions, and they were conducted as multiple-basic designs among students in a single sample study. The examiner observed and recorded the improvement of self-control and a psychological capability in each session, and the training was practiced 13 sessions as 40 minutes per one session.
The results obtained in this study are summarized as follows:
First, the application of the social skill training program brought a significant effect on the performance ability improvement in self-control of self-determination abilities.
Secondly, the application of the social skill training program brought a significant effect on the performance ability improvement in a psychological capability of self-determination abilities.