| Summary: | 碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 公共衛生學系碩士班 === 99 === Background: World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that the suicidal behaviors and depression among young people are a recent and growing problem in many countries . The lack of the efficient stress coping skills would lead to negative mood. Previous studies were mainly focused on the related factors of stress and coping, while research on exploring the effectiveness of were insufficient.
The pruposes of the study were: (1) to develop a positive psychology program for 4th and 5th graders. (2) to investigate the effectiveness of this positive psychology program. (3) to analyze the results by school, gender and grade.
Methods: Participants were selected from 4th and 5th graders in two primary schools located in Taichung City. Our research adopted a quasi-experimental design by choosing two sets of experimental and control groups from each school individually. The number of people who agree to participate in the program and completed all questionnaires (including pre-test, one-week post-test, and one-month post-test) was 97 for one school and 90 for the other one. Experimental groups attended four weeks (40 minutes per week) of positive psychology courses while control groups only maintain their routine class schedule. Nevertheless, considering the research ethics, control groups attended the same positive psychology courses after completing all questionnaires. This research used the repeated measures ANOVA to discuss the short-term and long-term effects of the intervention.
Results: (1) The program can enhance children’s ability to use “positive thinking” to deal with their stress, especially for 5th graders (had both short-term and long-term effects); (2) The program can enhance children’s ability to use “positive thinking” and overall coping abilities, especially for male children (had a long-term effect). (3) About the evaluation for the program, 73.19% of the participants in experimental groups claimed that the positive psychology courses were able to increase their stress coping ability.
Conclusion: An effective positive psychology program may facilitate children to learn useful coping strategies to increase their stress coping abilities and have the courage to face the challenge.
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