• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.23 no.5 s.77
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• pp.161-170
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to devise an Unconditional Self-Acceptance Development Program and examine the efficacy of the program on alleviating children's depression and improving psychological wellbeing. In order to test the efficacy of the developed program, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS: Hewitt & Flett, 1991), Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (USAQ; Chamberalain & Haaga, 2001), Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs & Beck, 1977), and Psychological Well-Being Scale(PWBS: Seng Hee Lee, 1999) were used for pre- and post tests. The test results were analyzed using t-tests. Twelve elementary school students suffering from depression participated in eight sessions of the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Development Program, and then were compared with 13 children in the control group who did not receive the treatment. The result was as follows: the treatment group showed statistically significant improvement in unconditional self- acceptance, alleviated level of depression, and increased psychological wellbeing, in comparison with the control group. The findings of this study suggest that unconditional self-acceptance development program should be adopted as a new therapy program for children's depression and psychological wellbeing.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.73-88
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• 2009

This research is to observe the misbehavior of child, and identify relevance maternal propensity for perfection - one of parents factors that affect the misbehavior of child - to the misbehavior of child. The objects of this study 274 children of 3-5 years who were attending nursery schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province and Busan City as well as their mothers of the same number. The result of the research provides the fundamental data about the mother and child relationship with the parent's factor which gives an effect to child's misbehavior and reveals mother's psychological nature of the functional parts of a perfectionism and the disfunction as part of this.