해외수학여행의 심리적 효과

Psychological Effects of Curriculum-based Educational Overseas Trip

This study was to explore the psychological effects of educational tourism experience with the leisure therapeutic perspective. Data collection method was into a quasi-experimental design including experimental group of 62 woman high school to be compared to control group of 46 students. Three kinds of psychological variables with 8 dimensions were adopted as criteria of travelling effects; affects(positive mood, depression, and anxiety), cognitive competency(involvement to travel, courage to travel, and traveller’s identity), and social ability(social skill and social identity). The differences of the 8 psychological dimensions between pre and post educational tourism were applied as ultimate dependents. It was identified that educational tourism group(i.e., experimental group) showed significantly more and higher improvement effects on the four psychological states or competencies compared to the control group as results. These results imply that the educational tourism has psychological therapeutic effects.