본문 바로가기
  • Home

Psychological Effects of Curriculum-based Educational Overseas Trip

  • Journal of Tourism Sciences
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2009, 33(4), pp.447-467
  • Publisher : The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Tourism

Ko, Dong Woo 1 Sang-Jeong Moon 2 오송대 3 Kim, Sang-Bum 4 Lee, Young-Suk 5

1대구대학교
2경운대학교
3부경대학교
4선정관광고등학교 교사
5안양여자상업고등학교 교사

Accredited

ABSTRACT

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

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.