초등학교 고학년의 사이버 괴롭힘 예방을 위한 집단상담 프로그램 개발

The purpose of this study is to develop a group counseling program for elementary school students in higher grades to prevent cyberbullying and validate its effect on the prevention of cyberbullying. The development of this program was gone through the 5-step process of research, analysis, design, construction and application. In the research level, a variety of preceding studies were investigated and then a survey of requirements was implemented to 150 elementary school students in higher grades. The objective, objectives by sessions, and the number of session for the program were set up based on the results of research stage in the analysis level. In the design and construction level, the final 14-session program was modified and complemented based on the advice of experts about the tentative program. In the application level, this program was conducted to verify the effectiveness to 2 classes in the 5th grade from elementary school located in C city. The one of two classes was the experimental group and the other class was the control group. For data processing, statistical results were analyzed using Mixed ANOVA with SPSS/Windows 12.0. To complement the limitations in reliability of quantitative results, the experience reports of the program participants and observation data from the counselor were analyzed, and their results were also presented. There were some significant differences in cyberbullying between the Experimental group and the Control group. This study is meaningful in that it developed a cyberbullying prevention program and validated its effect on elementary school students.