중학생의 학습동기와 자아존중감 강화를 위한 해결중심 집단프로그램의 효과

The effect of group intervention program for enhancement of learning motivation and self-esteem in middle school students:Focusing on the solution focused brief therapy

This study examined the improvement the middle school students made in respect to learning motivation and self-esteem after participating in the group program of solution focused brief therapy. This program consisted of six sessions, each providing several activities founded on the virtue and philosophy of solution focused brief therapy. Participants were 62 middle school students residing in Kangseo-gu and Yangcheon-gu areas. Half of them was randomly assigned to the experimental group and the rest to the control group. The measurements utilized were Learning Motivational Scale (Kim, 1996) and the Korean version of Rosenberg(1965) s self-esteem scale (Won, Lee, & Hoon-Jin, 1995). As a general means to analyze the data, frequencies and percentages were calculated. Then, paired t-test yielded the comparisons of pre-and post-test scores. The Results conclude that the solution focused brief therapy group program is effective on improving middle school students learning motivation and self-esteem.