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The Effects of Happiness Enhancement Group Counseling Program for Christian Middle-aged Men on Spiritual Maturity, Subjective Happiness and Interpersonal Relationship

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2020, 28(2), pp.135-162
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2020.28.2.135
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 27, 2020
  • Accepted : November 10, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Oh, Yoon Sun 1

1한국성서대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to verify whether the group counseling program that happiness enhancement among Christian middle-aged men has some effect on spiritual maturity, subjective happiness and interpersonal relationship. This study confirmed the results as follows. First, the result of homogeneity test between the experimental and the control group came to be spiritual maturity(p=.154), subjective happiness(p=.214) and interpersonal relationship (p=.223). This result showed that there were no statistically significant differences in spiritual maturity, subjective happiness and Interpersonal Relationship scores. Second, as a result of data analysis from the pre- and post- test, there were some significant differences in the mean scores between the control group and the experimental group, the average of the mean scores of spiritual maturity(pre M=61.521-post M=66.431), subjective happiness(pre M=24.212-post M=27.452) and interpersonal relationship(pre M=M=17.845 -post M=23.645) of the experimental group is proved to be relatively higher than the average of spiritual maturity(pre M=61.612 -post M=62.115), subjective happiness(pre M=23.314-post M=23.752) and interpersonal relationship(pre M=18.124 -post M=18.824) of the control group. In addition, the significance level of the experimental group was statistically significant in spiritual maturity p<.001, subjective happiness p<.001, and interpersonal relationships p<.01, whereas the significance level of the control group was meaningless. This proves that the happiness enhancement group counseling program for Christian middle-aged men can be applied very usefully to improve spiritual maturity, subjective happiness and interpersonal relationship.

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