The purpose of this study was to reveal effect of youth membership activities on self-concept and social skills for children with disabilities, disability perception for children without disabilities. To achieve goals of this study, 8 children with di...
The purpose of this study was to reveal effect of youth membership activities on self-concept and social skills for children with disabilities, disability perception for children without disabilities. To achieve goals of this study, 8 children with disabilities and 60 children without disabilities were divided into two groups, One was experimental group(4 disabled children and 30 nondisabled children) that did Youth Membership Activities and the other one was comparative group that didn't Youth Membership Activities but picture drawing after reading books without any interchange activities.
In this study, pretest-posttest control group design was used and youth membership activities had hold 25 sessions. The measures of self-concept, social skills have took by self-concept inventory, social skills rating system and the measures of disability perception have took by questionaire. The examiner computerized the test scores and retuned questionaires through the program SPSS and used Mean and Standard deviation. The windows SPSS 12.0 statistical program was made of the data statistical and it executed the t-test and ANCOVA analysis.
It was found that the average value of children with disabilities' self-concept and social skills, children without disabilities' disability perception for comparative group didn't make a big difference but for experimental group increased in post-test and it showed a increase as compared against the pre-test.
The above results showed that youth membership activities had an affirmative effect on children with disabilities' self-concept and social skills, children without disabilities' disability perception. Through youth membership activities, children with disabilities were able to experience various activities, establish interpersonal relations, which would have advanced one's self-concept and social skills and children without disabilities decreased in prejudice by understanding disability in personality.