The purpose of this study was to develop an ego-resilience enhancement program and its effect on ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being of elementary school students.
To achieve this purpose, the research questions were establishe...
The purpose of this study was to develop an ego-resilience enhancement program and its effect on ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being of elementary school students.
To achieve this purpose, the research questions were established as follows;
First, Would the ego-resilience enhancement program have the positive effect on the ego-resilience of elementary school students?
Second, Would the ego-resilience enhancement program have the positive effect on the school adjustment of elementary school students?
Third, Would the ego-resilience enhancement program have the positive effect on the subjective well-being of elementary school students?
To resolve the research questions, tow groups were set up, one for experiment and the other for control, experiment group was composed of 32 students at 5th and 6th grade students. And control group was composed of 60 students at 5th and 6th grade students.
Before starting the experiment, both groups were tested on ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being. The test scores of the two groups were not significantly different, which indicated that the two groups were statistically similar in ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being before the experiment.
During the experiment period which lasted for 6 weeks, experiment group was given ego-resilience enhancement program 60 minutes each times, twice a week for 10 times, and the control group did not receive any treatment. After the experiment, ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being were again measured on both groups. T-test of SPSS was used to compare the differences of the three variables between the experimental group and the control group. A statistical level for effect testing was set at .05.
The conclusion of this study were as following:
First, the ego-resilience enhancement program were significant effective improve the ego-resilience of elementary school students.
Second, the ego-resilience enhancement program were significant effective improve the school adjustment of elementary school students.
Third, the ego-resilience enhancement program were significant effective improve the subjective well-being of elementary school students.
Based on the idea mentioned above, it is shown that the ego-resilience enhancement program improve ego-resilience, school adjustment and subjective well-being of elementary school students.