The Development of an Education Program for Elementary School Students' Parents and its Effectiveness in Coping with Learning Involvement Stress:Group Counseling Using Reading Activities
AUTHOR : 정인숙,김정효
INFORMATION : page. 151~174 / 2012 Vol.19 No.2
ABSTRACT
This study was undertaken to develop an education program for elementary school students' parents to help cope with learning involvement through stress group counseling using reading activities. The study also sought to verify the effectiveness of such a program and activities. The program was conducted over eight sessions of group counseling using reading activities with the parents of E Elementary School in Seoul from October to December of 2010. Each session lasted 120 minutes. The program was developed to verify its effectiveness based on a parental needs survey, a review of precedent research, literature reviews, and grew out of a previous program developed during a preliminary study from June to July of 2010. The collected qualitative and the quantitative research data were analyzed and changes to parents' coping types to learning involvement stress were classified. In the qualitative research stage, parents who participated in the program showed cognitive and emotional change in the children's learning involvement, changes in the interaction between parents and changes in the family. The change in the use of parental coping types is verified in the qualitative research. The change of the coping type of the parents, who show noticeable differences between pre and post test results in the scale of coping type to the learning involvement stress, is also verified in the quantitative research. Therefore,the effectiveness of such an education program for elementary school students' parents to cope with learning involvement stress resulted in changes in parental perceptions of education, as well as seeing changes in learning involvement style and environmental changes. It is also verified that the changes in the emotion-focused coping behaviors among the learning stress coping types were noticeable.