This study aimed to examine the effects of Assertion Training on self-efficacy, by conducting play-based Assertion Training with the sixth grade elementary school students.
To achieve the purpose, research questions suggested in this study were as fo...
This study aimed to examine the effects of Assertion Training on self-efficacy, by conducting play-based Assertion Training with the sixth grade elementary school students.
To achieve the purpose, research questions suggested in this study were as follows:
Firstly, does play-based Assertion Training have a significant effect on confidence of elementary school students?
Secondly, does play-based Assertion Training have a significant influence on elementary school students' self-control efficacy?
Thirdly, does play-based Assertion Training affect significantly item difficulty of tasks that were assigned to elementary school students?
To verify these hypotheses of the study, twenty students of the sixth grade in C elementary school located in Busan city were sampled as subjects, and they divided into two groups: an experimental group consisted of ten students out of twenty, and a control group consisted of the others by using Pretest-Posttest control group design.
This study used play-based Assertion Training program that Jeon Ji-hyeon(1995) had developed appropriate to the fourth, fifth, and sixth students in elementary school by restructuring the assertive training program developed by Byeon Chang-jin and Kim Seong-hoi (1980), but the program was partly changed for this study.
The program was conducted ten times totally: two times a week for sixty to eighty minutes in after-school classes.
By using Kim Ah-young and Chat Jeong-eun (1995)'s self-efficacy test that had been adapted by Kim Ah-young (1997), Pretest-Posttest was carried out to verify the effect of Pretest-Posttest program. The data was analyzed by using covariate analysis (ANCOVA) with SPSS WIN 10.0 and the results of the analysis were as follows:
Firstly, the results showed that play-based Assertion Training had a significant effect to improve self-efficacy of elementary school students.
Secondly, while play-based Assertion Training showed significant differences related to confidence and self-control efficacy that were sub-categories of self-efficacy, there was no statistically significant difference with regard to item difficulty of tasks.