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 Volume 9, Issue 12 (December 2022), Pages: 89-97

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 Original Research Paper

The development and effects of the logotherapy-based ego-identity improvement program with the application of group art activities in late school-aged children

 Author(s): Young-Sook Lim *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Nursing, Shamyook Health University, Seoul, South Korea

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0065-5328

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.12.012

 Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to develop the logotherapy-based ego-identity improvement program through group art activities and to examine its effects. This program used concept synthesis. This program was exploited in accordance with the consultation and psychological education program development stages. Out of seven local children’s centers in 3 Cities, 37 children in the experimental group and 33 children in the control group agreed to participate. The data collection and the program adaptation were conducted between April 1, 2019, and September 30, 2019. The effect of the program was evaluated by t-test and repeated measures ANOVA. The researches show that the ego-identity of the experimental group (F=23.42, p<.001), the meaning of life (F=27.82, p<.001), the academic stress (F=14.14, p<.001), the stress symptoms (F=15.52, p<.001) had a significant difference between the measurement period and the group interaction. Resultingly, the logotherapy-based ego-identity improvement program was indicated to be effective in improving academic stress and stress symptoms and for enhancing ego-identity formation and the meaning of life among late school-aged children. Therefore, it is expected that this program will be applied as an efficient program for the betterment of ego-identity among late school-aged children in the community.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Art, Children, Identity, Logotherapy

 Article History: Received 27 May 2022, Received in revised form 17 August 2022, Accepted 31 August 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Lim YS (2022). The development and effects of the logotherapy-based ego-identity improvement program with the application of group art activities in late school-aged children. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(12): 89-97

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