The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the group counseling program using Reality Therapy(Youth Quality Management Training, YQMT) on internet addiction, self-esteem, internal control and responsibility of internet addicted studen...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the group counseling program using Reality Therapy(Youth Quality Management Training, YQMT) on internet addiction, self-esteem, internal control and responsibility of internet addicted students.
The hypotheses of this study were as follow:
1-1: The level of internet addiction of experimental group trained group counseling will be lower than control group.
1-2: The level of internet addiction of experimental group trained group counseling will be lower than before.
2-1: The level of self-esteem, internal control, responsibility of experimental group trained group counseling will be higher than control group.
2-2: The level of self-esteem, internal control, responsibility of experimental group trained group counseling will be higher than before.
The subjects for this study were 147 students of S-middle school located in the country. After the pretest, 20 subjects were chosen who were heavily addicted to internet. They were divided into experimental group(10 subjects) and control group(10 subjects). For experimental group, YQMT program were administered two times a week. All sessions were eight times for 4 weeks. To investigate the effects of the group counseling, the inventory of internet addition, self-esteem, internal control, and responsibility were administered to two group before and after the program.
The results of this study were as follow:
First, statistically significant decrease of internet addiction was found in experimental group. It is tested that YQMT have influence on the decrease of internet addiction of internet addicted students.
Second, statistically significant increase of self-esteem was found in experimental group. It is tested that YQMT have influence on the increase of self-esteem of internet addicted students. There is no statistically significant difference of internal control between pretest and posttest. It is tested that YQMT don't have influence on the increase of internal control of internet addicted students. Statistically significant increase of responsibility was found in experimental group. It is tested that YQMT have influence on the increase of responsibility of internet addicted students.
These results of this study supported that YQMT have influence on the decrease of internet addiction, the increase of self-esteem and responsibility. Therefore it would be considered that YQMT has value on education for internet addicted students. On the other hand, it is needed to reexamine the effort of YQMT on internal control, for there was no difference between experimental and control group.