• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.93-106
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• 2017

This study explains motivation and purpose of adolescents' game use based on Adler's individual psychology. Through in-depth interviews, it was found that the game is a field to reveal their need for approval in the social community and a means of expressing the attitude toward their life. In addition, need for approval shows a difference in adaptive/maladaptive attitude according to the social interest. This means that the role of peers, parents, and society is important in order for an individual's need for approval to produce social adaptive outcomes. It is necessary to acknowledge the game as an important area of self-actualization in which an adolescent is internalizing social interest and recognizing their self and it is required to switch from an attitude of exclusion, disdain and ignorance to an attitude of openness and tolerance and adaptive intervention.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.167-190
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• 2019

This study developed and applied Biblio-counseling program based on Alfred Adler's individual psychology targeting upper elementary school students who are in transitional stage of physical and psychological development and examined the effect of the program on the children's sense of inferiority, social interest, personality priority. The program was applied to 20 fourth and fifth graders enrolled in K Elementary School located in S City, Gyeonggi-do Province who were evenly divided into experimental group and control group who was applied for a total of 12 sessions. Main results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, in an analysis regarding the analysis result, the sense of inferiority,the social interest and personality priority showed a statistically significant difference between the two groups. Second, the Biblio-counseling program based on individual psychology had positive impact on the subjective response of the upper elementary school students. And students' interest in books and reading books improved.