Article

The Effect of Attachment Improvement Parent-Education Group Counseling on Mothers’ Adult Attachment, Self-Esteem and Parent-Child Interaction

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서은주,이현림

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pp. 101~123 / 2011 Vol.18 No.2

Abstract

\"The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of attachment improvement parent-education group counseling on mothers\' adult attachment, their self esteem, and parent-child interaction. The research hypotheses were first, 1) The experimental group which participated in attachment improvement parent-education group counseling would have more stable adult attachments than that of the control group. 2) The experimental group which participated in group attachment improvement parent-education group counseling would improve their self esteem more than the control group. 3) The experimental group which participated in attachment improvement parent-education group counseling would make a more positive change in terms of their mother-child interaction than the control group. The subjects were 20 mothers from two elementary schools in D city, Korea, with 10 mothers each in the experimental and control groups. 12 sessions of the attachment improvement parent-education group counseling were carried out for the experimental group for 120 minutes per session. To comparing in the differences on the mothers\' adult attachment, self esteem, and parent-child interactions between the two groups, the data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance. The results of the study were first, 1) The experimental group which participated in attachment improvement parent-education group counseling showed meaningfully lower attachment levels than that of the control group. 2) The experimental group which participated in attachment improvement parent-education group counseling showed meaningfully higher levels of self-esteem than that of the control group. 3) The experimental which participated in attachment improvement parent-education group counseling showed meaningfully higher levels of mother-child interaction than that of the control group. Therefore, attachment improvement parent-education group counseling was effective in improving the participants\' adult attachment, self-esteem and parent-child interaction levels.Key words : attachment improvement parent-education group counseling, adult attachment, self-esteem, parent-child interaction, internal functioning model\"

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