The purpose of this research is to verify the effectiveness of optimism training program for 6 graders of elementary school students. To achieve the purpose of the research, following hypotheses were set up in this study;
1. Children who received opt...
The purpose of this research is to verify the effectiveness of optimism training program for 6 graders of elementary school students. To achieve the purpose of the research, following hypotheses were set up in this study;
1. Children who received optimism training will more improved self-concept compared with the children who did not receive it.
2. The increased self-concept of the children who received the optimism training will last at least more than one month.
The subject were the 20 fourth graders of elementary school in Busan Korea. The optimism training was applied to the experimental group 14 times for seven weeks. Each meeting took about 50~80 minutes. Data were taken from experimental and control groups by the pre-test and post-test and collected data were analyzed by t-test.
The results of this research are as follows:
1. The optimism training program is a program which effectively increases children's self-concept. In other words, the children in the experimental group, remarkably improved self-concept compared with the control group.
2. The research identified that the effect of the optimism training program lasted for 4 weeks.