• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.39-56
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to draw the elements of encouraging language from the literatures of encouragement and develop the encouraging language model for elementary school teachers. To achieve this, first of all, the literatures about the methods of encouragement were collected. And then the collected literatures were categorized according to the main concept which each literature contained. As a result, 5 categories and 17 subcategories were drawn. 5 categories were valuing a child as a human-being itself, trusting a child, thinking rationally about a child's mistakes, giving a feedback about a child's behaviors non-evaluatively, and reflecting a child's positive feeling. These 5 categories were established as the elements of encouraging language. The encouraging language model was developed on the bases of the 5 elements of encouraging language. The model was constructed of the examples of encouraging language in various classroom situations. The model contains various situations which elementary school teachers often confront in their classrooms. And the model shows the examples of encouraging language proper for each situation. Every example was constructed on the bases of the elements of encouraging language.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.131-140
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to develop a teacher's encouragement response and to prove its effect. In order to do so, this study includes three sub-studies. First study is to identify the categories of teacher's encouraging verbal response. second study is to examine whether a teacher's encouraging verbal response can be developed, and third study is to identify how a teacher's encouragement has an effect on school adjustment of elementary children. The results of the study are followings: First, listening, asking, supporting, accepting, and describing are established as teacher's encouraging verbal responses. Second, a teacher can develope his encouraging response through self-discipline. Third, teacher's encouragement is effective on the enhancing of children's school adjustment.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.51-63
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• 2018

Objective: The purpose of this study was to verify the influence of educare teachers' self-encouragement and social support on their psychological burnout. Methods: This study was 329 educare teachers working in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province. The questionnaire for this study (self-encouragement scales, social support scales, and psychological burnout scales) was conducted and t-test, F-test, Turkey post test, Pearson Correlation analysis, simple regression analysis and multiple regression analysis was conducted by using the SPSS windows 18.0 program. Research results of analysis were as follows. Results: First, the difference of self-encouragement of educare teachers was remarkable according to age group and that of social support noticeable according to age group and career while that of psychological burnout was noticeable according to age group and marital status. Second, educare teachers' self-encouragement and social support has negative correlation with their psychological burnout. Third, educare teachers' self-encouragement and social support affect their psychological burnout in negative manner. In particular, self-encouragement functions, more than social support, as a main factor in reducing psychological burnout. Conclusion/Implications: These results can be utilized as basic data for developing education and counselling programs designed to provide emotional stability for educare teachers and help them give more positive child-care service.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.191-199
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyze university student's standard of self-efficacy and subjective well-being by the Encouragement Group Counseling Program which would be able to help the students to secure their reaction capability on changing social environment as well as school adaption. Thus, this study investigated how an application of the Encouragement Group Counseling Program affects on university students' self-efficacy and subjective well-being. As a result, it was revealed that the application of the Encouragement Group Counseling Program has a significant influence on both self-efficacy and subjective well-being. It seemed that people can be positive and have both self-confidence and psychological stability when they are encouraged. Therefore, this study suggested a necessity of the Encouragement Group Counseling Program which supports undergraduate students to have encouragement themselves.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.133-142
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of encouragement-centered class management on elementary students' adaptation to school life and self-encouragement. The various encouragement-centered class management tactics were developed which were based on Adler's Individual psychology theory. Subjects were two classes which were 5th grade at A elementary school in Gwangju. One class was experiment group(n=28) and the other class was control group(n=31). Data were collected through the school adaptation scale(kang, 2008) and self-encouragement scale(Gi and Hong, 2008). The collected data were analysed using ANCOVA. The results of this study were following; First, school adaptation score had improved significantly in experimental group than the control group. Second, self-encouragement score had improved significantly in experimental group than the control group.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.137-150
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• 2011

This study was to examine the effects of teacher's encouraging language on elementary student's adjustment to school life. To achieve this purpose, teacher's encouraging language were drawn from Adlerian literatures and ten principles of encouragement were established as the following: recognizing the student's values and potentials, putting an emphasis on student's positive sides, helping the student realize his or her own strength, tolerating student's mistakes, using perceptual alternatives, practicing self-encouragement, accepting and supporting opponents, stimulating internal motivations, and emphasizing social usefulness. Subjects were 34 1st graders at J elementary school in CheonNam. 17 subjects were assigned to experiment group and 17 subjects were assigned to control group. Teacher's encouraging language were applied to experiment group and teacher's usual languages were provided to control group for ten weeks. The quantitative data were collected through Elementary school adjustment behavior rating scale(Oh, 2009) and were analysed via ANCOVA. The qualitative data were collected through observations and products of the subjects and were analysed via qualitative methods. The results showed that teacher's encouraging language had a positive effect on the student's adjustment to school life.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.5169-5178
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine difference in quality of chest compression according to encouragement method of focusing on two rescuers' teamwork in CPR guideline for 2010. Subjects were randomly extracted the Dept. Emergency Medical Technology students who completed the curriculum of CPR. A group was divided into the group with one-time encouragement(33 people) and the group with continuous encouragement(33 people). Measurement period was progressed from April 30, 2012 to May 7. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS WIN program(version 12.0). As a result of research, the accuracy of chest compression(time, %) was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(118.72 times, 78.54%) than the group with continuous encouragement(95.12 times, 62.96%). As for the recognition of subjective concentration, the recognition as saying of being helpful for concentration was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(3.90 points) than the group with continuous encouragement(3.12 points). Even as for the recognition of subjective fatigue relief, the recognition as saying of being helpful for fatigue relief was higher(p<.05) in the group with one-time encouragement(3.96 points) than the group with continuous encouragement(3.30 points).

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-20
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to investigate the home connected praise and encouragement program which it affects the interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being of elementary children. To achieve this purpose, 58 fifth grade students were measured based on the interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being scale. Then 29 students were placed in the experimental group while the other 29 children were placed in the control group. The experimental group participated in home connected praise and encouragement program, the control group didn't. The quantitative analysis results verifying the effects of the program were as follows: The experimental group treated by the home connected praise and encouragement program showed significant improvement in interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being compared to the control group. Follows are results from qualitative analysis. First, children have increased positive personal relations with companion, parents, teacher, and improved closeness with family by the home connected praise and encouragement program. Second, children have increased edification of self-confidence, satisfaction in school and home by them. These results supported our hypothesis that the home connected praise and encouragement program effectively improved interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being of elementary school children.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.65-82
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to provide a better understanding of the relationship between teaching entry motivation and teaching competence by examining the role of self-encouragement as a mediator. Data were collected from 202 students at university(Dept. of Early Childhood Education) in Daejeon. The results were as follows. First, there was the significant differences in teaching competence level by self-encouragement and teaching entry motivation styles. Second, It was also found that students with intrinsic motivation conceived higher teaching competence than others. The more students self-encouraged, the higher teaching competence they conceived. Third, it was found that the self-encouragement partially mediated the relationship between intrinsic teaching entry motivation and teaching competence. Also, it was analyzed that the self-encouragement fully mediated the relationship between extrinsic teaching entry motivation and teaching competence. Finally, it is necessary to understand of the teaching entry motivation styles and of the importance of the self-encouragement.

• Korean Educational Research Journal
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.1-22
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of job satisfaction, self-encouragement, and subjective well-being of public kindergarten teachers. To achieve this, a questionnaire was given to 121 teachers in public kindergartens, and the data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and independent-sample t-tests. The main results of this study are as follows: First, job satisfaction, self-encouragement, and subjective well-being of the teachers were above medium level, while negative affect was lower. Second, public kindergarten teachers with higher job satisfaction showed significantly higher subjective well-being than those with lower job satisfaction. Third, teachers with higher levels of self-encouragement showed significantly higher subjective well-being than those with lower job satisfaction. Fourth, in the case of teachers with higher job satisfaction, those with higher levels of self-encouragement showed significantly higher subjective well-being than those with lower levels. The results suggest that the subjective well-being of the teachers depends on the level of their job satisfaction and self-encouragement, and that even if they do have low job satisfaction, high self-encouragement could have a positive effect for them. The results of this study are discussed, and suggestions provided for further research.