The purpose of this study is to investigate effect of emotion regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card on elementary school students’ peer relations. For this, following research questions were set up.
First, does the emotion re...
The purpose of this study is to investigate effect of emotion regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card on elementary school students’ peer relations. For this, following research questions were set up.
First, does the emotion regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card have an effect on the emotional regulation competence enhancement of elementary students?
Second, does the emotional regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card have an effect on the elementary students’ peer relation improvement?
The subjects of this study were 39 students (23 male and 16 female students), 2 classes of 4th grade elementary school located in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea. The experimental group and control group were selected as the class researcher in charge of and the other 1 class which has verified similarities.
In this study, pretest-posttest control group design is used. And pretest and posttest was conducted to experimental group and control group. To experimental group, emotion regulation competence enhancement program was applied but not for control group.
The emotion regulation competence enhancement program designed for this study consists of 11 sessions, taking 50 minutes for one session and it was conducted twice a week.
T-test was implemented to verify homogeneity between pre-groups and then T-test and covariance analysis were implemented to verify differences between post-groups. To supplement limit of questionnaire response analysis, an engaged children’s review and analysis about researcher’s observation were conducted.
The results of this study are summarized as follows.
Frist, emotional regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card is effective for elementary students emotional regulation competence enhancement. According to the result of analysis by subfactors of emotional regulation ability, experimental group showed statistically significant than the control group after implementation in cognitive and experiential level but not for behavioral.
Second, emotional regulation competence enhancement program with emotional card is effective for improve of peer relationship quality. According to the result of analysis by subfactors of peer relationship quality, experimental group showed statistically significant than the control group after implementation in positive factor but not for negative.
The result of this study suggest that emotional regulation competence enhancement program is effective on improve of emotional regulation ability and positive peer relationship for elementary students.