성관련 강좌가 대학생들의 성지식에 미치는 효과 = Effects of Sexual Knowledge and Consciousness on Sexuality Course on University Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to confirm the effects of lectures on sexuality and investigate changes in students' sexual knowledge and consciousness.
Method: The subjects in this study were 50 students at K University in Busan, and the research period was from the 8^(th) of March to the 7^(th) of June 2004. This study was designed to be one-group pretest-posttest. Data were analyzed by frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, paired t-test and x^(2)-test using the SPSS 10.0 program.
Results:
1. The score of sexual knowledge increased from 14.48 before the education to 15.70 after and the difference was statistically significant (t=3.926, p<.001).
2. Significant differences of sexual consciousness were observed in 'the extent of sexual behavior’ (x^(2)=12.584, p<.05), 'the meaning of intercourse’ (x^(2)=46.014, p<.001), 'the self attitude of premarital purity’ (x^(2)=84.686, p<.001), 'the premarital intercourse’ (x^(2)=75.323, p<.001), 'the definition of purity’ (x^(2)=23.770, p<.001), 'the general premarital purity attitude’ (x^(2)=32.305, p<.001), 'the conception of love, sex and marriage’ (x^(2)=38.452, p<.001) and ‘the premarital sex experiences’ (x^(2)=50.210, p<.001).
Conclusions: This study showed that a sexuality course has effects on increasing sexual knowledge and changing the consciousness in university students.