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The Grounded Theoretical Study on Negative Emotion Recovery Process of Female College Students Through Bibliotherapy

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2008, 42(3), pp.103-131
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Kilja Kim 1

1서울여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Today, the mental health has a great deal of impact on individuals and the society surrounding. Therefore, this research is to propose a way of bibliotherapical intercession by stages and patterns as to examine the recovery process of students with negative emotion by using the grounded theoretical method. This research collected materials through focus-interview, participant observation and book reports of 4 experiments involving female college students aged from 21 to 23, all having emotional and psychological difficulties. The recovery process of female students with negative emotion involved causal factors such as “recognition of hidden wound”, “Sense of inferiority”, and “difficulty in forming relationships”, as well as contextual factors like “sympathetic attitude”, which altogether brought about the core phenomenon, “pursuit for healthy ego”. This core phenomenon induced to recovering the bright and positive attitude through using the strategies of ‘self insight’ and application of ‘management plan’, influence by such incoherent conditions as ‘intimate surroundings’ and \ ‘support system patterns’. And as time passed, the recovery process appeared tin four stages; ‘issues recognition’, ‘emotional responses’, ‘issue solution’ and ‘self application’.

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