This research intends to understand the spirit in Dado of the old attending social centers through the education of Dado in their daily lives.
The concrete subjects of the research are to examine the different features between the spirit in Dado of th...
This research intends to understand the spirit in Dado of the old attending social centers through the education of Dado in their daily lives.
The concrete subjects of the research are to examine the different features between the spirit in Dado of the old who participated in the education of Dado and that of nonparticipating ones, to examine the four embodied spirits, that is, harmony, respect, simplicity and sincerity, of the old participating in the education, and to find the characteristics in the area of the old.
The participants of this research were fifteen old individuals who participated in the education, and twenty four nonparticipating old individuals, in total thirty nine ones.
The reliability of the questionnaire in this research was .942 of cronbach α, and this shows the reliability was relatively high.
The findings of the research are the following:
First, the participating group shows higher degree in embodiment of the spirit of the Dado than that of nonparticipating group statistically, and, in particular, the degrees in embodiments of the old's spirits of harmony, respect, simplicity and sincerity are also high respectively. It indicates the participating old acquire higher positive spirits of Dado than nonparticipating ones.
Second, focusing on the features of the participating and the nonparticipating old in relation to the four embodied spirits of Dado, there were no big differences between the two groups in devotion area, such as "always cherishing the hope in the heart", and "hoping every member in family may achieve his of her own dream" as the harmony spirit. Rather, it should be noted that the participating group showed the higher spirits of services than nonparticipating one, such as "volunteer activities", and "solving others' matters."
In addition, as regards the respect spirit, the participating group appeared to have more desires than the other one for respect and learning in their daily lives, such as "considering other people", "treating to other people" and "wanting to learn further."
As regards the simplicity spirit, the participating group appeared to show the higher spirits of Dado of simplicity and practice in their daily lives than the other one, such as "abstraining economically" and "positively participating in various gathering."
Finally, as regards the sincerity spirit, the participating group showed the higher spirits of effort and creativity in their daily lives than the other one, such as "orderly living", "feeling the meaningfulness of the day" and "enduring the loneliness and the difficulties."
Such findings tends to be the same as the results of the precedent studies of Lee, Kyung-Nam, Kim, In-Suk, Park, Jeong-Hee and Choi, Myung-Ja.
Conclusively, the education of teaism can positively lead the old to moderate his or her temper in the aspect of mental conditions, to cultivate the mind to respect and consider others, and to maintain the smooth daily relations with others by way of tea. Therefore, we can expect the old to live the psychologically securer, happier and more satisfactory life, including good relations with others, by systematically and consistently educating the old for teaism.
Keywords : The old, Dado education, The spirit of Dado, The embodied spirit, Spirit to practice