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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology

The Effect of Mental Fitness Positive Counseling and Psychotherapy on College Students According to Defense Mechanism Styles

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2014, v.19 no.3, pp.673-693
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2014.19.3.003


Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between personal defense mechanism styles and the effect of mental fitness positive counseling and psychotherapy on college students. The 10 session group mental fitness program was administrated to 60 college students in Seoul. Each group consisted of 12∼14 participants. Self-report questionnaires were given to participants before and after the intervention in order to assess changes in subjective well-being and optimism. Nine participants were absent from 3 or more sessions were excluded from the subsequent analysis. According to the result of cluster analysis using the distribution of scores on subtypes of defense styles, which were assessed before the intervention, the remaining 51 participants were divided into 3 groups: mature, neurotic, and immature. The results showed that there were significant increases in subjective well-being and optimism after program participation regardless of group type. But interaction effects of group and assessment time were not found significant for either subjective well-being or optimism. These findings suggest that the mental fitness program can enhance subjective well-being and optimism in mature, neurotic, and immature groups. Finally, limitations of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

keywords
mental fitness, positive counseling and psychotheray, defense style, tacit knowledge, happiness metacognition, emotional literacy, 멘탈 휘트니스, 긍정심리상담 및 치료, 방어유형, 암묵적 지식, 행복메타인지, 정서 교양

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