Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2017.17.2.117

A Study on Promoting Optimism Utilizing a Communication Board Game - With a focus on college students  

Gim, Hye-Yeong (Dept. of Visual Culture, Kangwon National University)
Ryu, Seol-Ri (School of Communication, Sogang University)
Ryu, Seoung-Ho (Dept. of Visual Culture, Kangwon National University)
Publication Information
Journal of Korea Game Society / v.17, no.2, 2017 , pp. 117-122 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study verified the effects of promoting optimism by utilizing communication board games with university students. Since optimism is closely related to grade, self-efficacy, a sense of achievement, the importance of enhancing optimism was emphasized. This study seeks to investigate practical measures that can promote optimism utilizing games in a more casual environment based on the research of Seligman(1990), which claimed that the optimism can be learned regardless of temperaments. In Study1, the level of optimism increased from M=-4.7(t1) to M=12.8 in t2(p<.001). In Study2, a control group(n=22) was added with the experiment group(n=21). The level of optimism increased from M=-2.4(t1) to M=11.5(t2) in the experiment group(p<.001), whereas there was no difference in the control group.
Keywords
Learned optimism; Communication Board Game; Ungame;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (2016). World Happiness Report 2016, Update (Vol. I). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
2 Carver. C. S. & Scheier. M. F., Segerstrom. S. C.(2010), Optimism, Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 879-889   DOI
3 Carver, C. S., & Scheier, M. F. (2014). Dispositional optimism. Trends in cognitive sciences, 18(6), 293-299.   DOI
4 Hirsch, J. K., Nsamenang, S. A., Chang, E. C., & Kaslow, N. J. (2014). Spiritual well-being and depressive symptoms in female African American suicide attempters: Mediating effects of optimism and pessimism. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 6(4), 276.   DOI
5 Wrosch, C., Jobin, J., & Scheier, M. F. (2016). Do the Emotional Benefits of Optimism Vary Across Older Adulthood? A Life Span Perspective. Journal of personality.
6 Endrighi R, Hamer M, Steptoe A.(2011), Associations of trait optimism with diurnal neuroendocrine activity, cortisol responses to mental stress, and subjective stress in healthy men and women. Psychosomatic Medicine.73, 672-678.   DOI
7 Goodin, B. R., Kronfli, T., King, C. D., Glover, T. L., Sibille, K., & Fillingim, R. B. (2013). Testing the relation between dispositional optimism and conditioned pain modulation: does ethnicity matter?, Journal of behavioral medicine, 36(2), 165-174.   DOI
8 Jobin, J., Wrosch, C., & Scheier, M. F. (2014). Associations between dispositional optimism and diurnal cortisol in a community sample: When stress is perceived as higher than normal. Health psychology, 33(4), 382.   DOI
9 Forgeard, M. J. C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2012). Seeing the glass half full: A review of the causes and consequences of optimism. Pratiques psychologiques, 18(2), 107-120.   DOI
10 Evangelos C. Karademas(2006), Self-efficacy, social support and well-being : The mediating role of optimism, Personality and Individual Differences, 40(6), 1281-1290.   DOI
11 Seligman. M. E. P.(1990), Learned Optimism, New York:Knopf.
12 Wilkinson, N., Ang, R. P., & Goh, D. H. (2008). Online video game therapy for mental health concerns: a review. International journal of social psychiatry, 54(4), 370-382.   DOI
13 Zalick, R. (1975). The Ungame.
14 Celano, M. P. (1990). Activities and games for group psychotherapy with sexually abused children. International journal of group psychotherapy, 40(4), 419-429.   DOI
15 Kintner, E., Cook, G., Allen, A., Meeder, L., Bumpus, J., & Lewis, K. (2012). Feasibility and benefits of a school‐based academic and counseling program for older school‐age students with asthma. Research in nursing & health, 35(5), 507-517.   DOI