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The Effect of Horticultural Therapy on Improvement of Self-esteem, Immersion and Happiness to Female Reformatory Student

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of horticultural therapy program for female reformatory students on improvement of their self-esteem, immersion and happiness. 42 female reformatory students participated. Experimental group of 22 members received a horticultural therapy program and control group of 20 members did not receive a horticultural therapy program. And this study was performed once a week from March 2013 to June 2013, a total of twelve sessions. The program from “The effect of horticultural therapy on personality development of female reformatory student(Choi, 2013)” was applied. As the results, self-esteem, immersion and happiness level of experimental group was improved significantly. Moreover, it is found statistically that each variable is positively(+) correlated. When self-esteem and immersion were improved, the happiness was also improved. Therefore this study is said to be relevant to find that the ‘improvement of self-esteem and immersion’ is main factor of ‘improvement of happiness’ and the horticultural therapy program affects positively to female reformatory students on improvement of their self-esteem, immersion and happiness. In addition, the horticultural therapy program could be utilized as character education after seeking various application plans to prevent juvenile delinquents from repeated delinquency.