2010, Vol.7, No.2

The Korean Journal of School Psychology 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.68

pISSN : 1738-463X / eISSN : 2734-0112
https://journal.kci.go.kr/schooljr

The purpose of the study is to develop and validate a Happiness Scale for the Korean college students in indigenous psychological perspective. Based on the previously developed empirical evidence and FGI, 102 preliminary items are yield. The data of 565 students were used for conducting an exploring factor analysis. In result, the 23 items scale consist of six-factor of a Happiness subscale(4 items of majority satisfaction, orientation for appearance, sociability, family relationship, orientation for Achievement and 3 items of opposite-sex relationship). For the final scale, an confirmatory factor analysis were conducted from the data of 378 students. A result revealed that the six- factor structure of a Happiness Scale was appropriate to represent the happy structure of Korean college students. The internal consistency of each factor was reasonably high ranging from .86 to .68. Implications for counselling practice and future research were suggested.

This study explored the helpful aspect and dissatisfied aspect in school counseling perceived by the middle school student client' and compared these with the school counselor's conjectures using the concept-mapping method. A total of 21 middle school student clients and 10 school counselors were interviewed on the helpful and dissatisfied aspects of ongoing school counseling service (5-15 session). The key sentences from the interviews were extracted, sorted and rated by themselves. Multidimensional Scaling and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis method were used in order to identify dimensions and clusters of their experiences. The cognitive characteristics of middle school student clients' and school counselors' perceptions were explored, and their similarities and differences were discussed. This study is meaningful as it explores the helpful aspect and dissatisfied aspect of school counseling through the middle school student client’s point of view. The helpful aspect will enhance the impact of school counseling by strengthening the level of services to be provided, and the dissatisfied aspect analysis will highlight the area of reforms and improvements in order to establish a strong base on school counseling. In addition, the suggestions on methods to practice the result of school counseling were discussed, and the limitations of this study and implications for future study were suggested.

The purpose of this research was to verify the effect of study skills training program and special supplementary learning program on improvement of underachievers' learning ability. In order to accomplish this purpose, first, the Study Skill Training Program and Special Supplementary Learning Program is reconstructed to fit for level of underachievers in middle school students. The samples of this research are two specific classes of third grade middle school students in H middles school of Incheon city. This students consisted lower 20% group in term test, especially below 60 points in Korean Language, English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Each class where contains 10 students were identified as a sample of an experimental group and a controllable group. Belonged to experimental group, eleven 60 minutes sessions of study skills training program and special supplementary learning program were performed twice a week whereas session were not provide for control group. Collected data from the test was statistically analyzed by ANCOVA of SPSS 15.0. As a result, in terms of the experimental group who participated in sessions, the level of study habit and self-directed learning ability were significantly increased than control group who was not provided for sessions. The result imply that both study skills training program and special supplementary learning program are significantly effective to improve underachievers' study habit and self-directed learning ability.