The Effects of Rational-Emotive Group Counseling on Elementary School Students’ Peer Relations an Rational Beliefs

• Main Authors: Liu, Hui-Ching, 劉蕙晴
• Other Authors: Yang, Myau-Fen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14434819862680195218

碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士班 === 93 === The Effects of Rational-Emotive Group Counseling on Elementary School Students’ Peer Relations and Rational Beliefs Hui-Ching Liu Abstract The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Rational-Emotive Group Counseling (REGC) for improving peer relations and increasing rational beliefs. Through the result which I obtained from the study, some important implications from which were derived, and, moreover, a number of suggestions were thus made for further studies. The pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used in the study. The experiment group consists of 4 boys and 4 girls who were fourth-grade students in an elementary school in Kaohsiung. The experiment group received REGC with 20 unites for 1230 minutes (20.5 hours) for improving peer relations and increasing rational beliefs, and, the control group received no experimental treatments. Both“Peer Relations Scale”and“Rational Beliefs Scale”were used to conduct pretest, posttest, and follow-up measures. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney was used to study the differences between the students in the experimental group and those in the control group. In addition, members’ interviews, feedback sheets and records of the group sessions were also collected and analyzed. The results of this study are summarized as follows: 1. During the process of group counseling, the attitude of researcher, use of counseling stratagem, the arrangement of activity and some factors of the process of counseling, were helping in making the counseling more effective. 2. The REGC showed significant, immediate and follow-up effect on improving peer relations of experiment group in “Peer Relations Scale” and it’s “Friendly Relations Subscale”, “Achievement Subscale”. It showed immediate but no follow-up effect in “Emotional Stability Subscale”. It showed no immediate and follow-up effect in “Social Ability Subscale”. 3. The REGC showed significant, immediate and follow-up effect on increasing rational beliefs of experiment group in “Rational Beliefs Scale” and it’s “Fixed-Absolute Subscale”, “Awful-Low Frustration Tolerance Subscale”, “Unrealistic Overgeneralization Subscale”. It showed no immediate and follow-up effect in “Self-Worth Subscale”. Finally, through the results, the suggestions were made for guidance work and studies in the further. Keywords: Peer Relations, Rational Beliefs, Rational-Emotive Group Counseling