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http://dx.doi.org/10.5934/KJHE.2012.21.3.407

The effects of university students' self-development program on students adaptation to college and stress coping methods  

Cho, Hea-Joung (Dept. of Child Studies, Mokpo National University)
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Korean Journal of Human Ecology / v.21, no.3, 2012 , pp. 407-421 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to plan out a university students' self-development program and to verify the effect of the students in adapting themselves to college life and coping with stress from it. The program was developed as the liberal arts course for a semester and comprised 12 sessions. Each secession of a 150 minutes workshop program. The pre-test, post test regarding students adaptation to college and stress coping methods conducts upon each experimental group and each control group. Each group consisted of 50 subjects. As a result of this research, this study could come to the following conclusions. Firstly, it was found that the university students' self-development program has effect on improving students adaptation to college. Secondly, it was found that the university students' self-development program has effect on improving stress coping methods.
Keywords
university students' self-development program; students adaptation to college; stress coping methods;
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