In this study, the effect of bibliotherapy on the emotional depression, shame and guilty conscience, the representative characters of institutionalized children who suffered from parents divorce, was investigated.
The subject of this study is 28 insti...
In this study, the effect of bibliotherapy on the emotional depression, shame and guilty conscience, the representative characters of institutionalized children who suffered from parents divorce, was investigated.
The subject of this study is 28 institutionalized children, aging from 9 to 12, who suffered from their parents divorce. CDI(Childrens Depression Inventory) and TOSCA(Test of Self-Conscious Affect) were carried out on these children as a pre-test. For one group of 14 children, bibliotherapy was performed during Sept. 25. 2002 - Oct. 28. 2002, 80 minutes a time, 2 times a week, totally 10 times, and for another group of 14 children, nothing was performed for comparison.
According to Watson(1994)s 4 step of bibliotherapy program, bibliotherapy was carried out by discussing content of reading material which was properly selected, and follow-up activities were performed.
After the end of bibliotherapy, CDI and TOSCA, the same as pre-test, were carried out on these 28 children as a post-test.
The data collected in this study were analyzed by SAS Statistics Package. In order to examine the homogeneity of pre-test between two groups, t-test was carried out. And in order to examine the difference of post-test between two groups after bibliotherapy treatment, ANCOVA was carried out under the condition that pre-test is covariance.
The results of this study are as follows.
All indexes which were used to confirm the homogeneity of test group and comparison group show that the two groups are homogeneous.
This program showed an positive effect on emotional depression and guilty conscience, but showed no noticeable effect on shame.
Consequently, this bibliotherapy program was proven to be effective to decrease the emotional depression and guilty conscience of institutionalized children.