The major objective of this thesis is to develop a happiness promotion group-counseling program on the basis of the study of literatures and experiments and to test if the program will be adopted in schools. The target of this research is a total of 3...
The major objective of this thesis is to develop a happiness promotion group-counseling program on the basis of the study of literatures and experiments and to test if the program will be adopted in schools. The target of this research is a total of 30 freshman(experiment group 15 and control group 15 respectively) in the Department of 'S' at 'D' University located in Gyeong-san, North Gyeong-sang Province, Korea. The happiness group counseling program was applied to the experiment group between March 14th and May 30th in 2007, while no program was applied to the control group.
The measuring tool utilized for the research was 'the Happiness Strength(happiness test ?T)', 'the Oxford Happiness Questionnare', 'the Self Esteem', 'the Optimism', 'the Interpersonal Relations', 'the Internal-External Locus of Control', 'the Happy Method Recognition', and 'the Level of Happy Method Practice'. They were carried out on before and after the fact, later on of each group. To get data, the descriptive statistics, t-test and Pearson's correlation coefficient estimation were executed by using the program 'SPSS'. The majority of the confidence coefficient of Cronbach's ?? of each measuring tool shows between 0.7 and 0.9, which indicates that the internal consistency tends to be high.
The result of research is as follow.
At first, as looking around an effect by counseling discipline career of group leaders, there were significant differences in 'the Oxford happiness question' and 'the self esteem', on the other hand, there were no significant differences in 'the happiness intensity', 'the optimism', 'the interpersonal relations', 'the internal-external locus of control'.
Second, there were no differences in 'the optimism' in the comparing effects of the group counseling program which makes promote happiness between an experiment group and a control one. But there were significant differences in 'the happiness intensity (t=5.55, p<.01) ․ the Oxford happiness question (t=2.11, p<.05) ․ the self esteem (t=2.62, p<.05) ․ the interpersonal relations (t=2.70, p<.05) ․the internal-external locus of control (t=2.55, p<.05) ․the happy method recognition (t=7.27, p<.01) ․ the level of happy method practice (t=6.73, p<.01)'.
Third, when you examine the correlation between the recognition degree of the method for happiness, the level difference to practice the method for happiness, the recognition degree of the method for happiness in before and after the fact, the level difference to practice the method for happiness and the happiness intensity, the feeling of happiness, in difference of the recognition degree of the method for happiness of before the fact and later on(r=.447, p< .05, r=.436, p< .05) and the level difference to practice the method for happiness(r=.531, p< .01, r=.486, p< .05), there has significant correlation with happiness intensity and the feeling of happiness.
The research outcome suggests that happiness promotion group counseling program does not show any significant differences between beginners and veterans in terms of counseling training experiences. Consequently, the program plays a positive role to promote undergraduate happiness. In addition, it seems that both recognizing how to be happy and how to be practicing happiness are the two major factors for the promotion of happiness.