TY  - JOUR
T1  - Psychological and Emotional Capacity Strengthening Program Development and
Effectiveness Study for Independence of Single Mothers with Children
AU - Kang, Ki-Jung AU - Park, Su-Sun 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 13
SP  - 3372
EP  - 3375
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.3372.3375
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.3372.3375
KW  - independence
KW  -single mothers with children
KW  -Capacity strengthening program
KW  -ecological system  perspective
KW  -subject perspective
AB  - The purpose of this program is for single mothers to improve confidence about roles as parents and
strengthen personal capacity to have a sense of independence through the processes of self-exploration, child
nurturing method learning and making relationships with regional society. As the first stage of the study,
literature review on single mothers with children was conducted. Next, interviews were conducted on five single
mothers with children living in Cheon-an, one of the representative cities in the Korean Central Region to
investigate and analyze program demand. Based on literature review and investigated demand in the third stage,
a 5 session program with the goal of promoting psychological and emotional stability to promote independence
of single mothers with children was developed. Finally, the program developed for single mothers with children
was operated and conducted and the program effectiveness was analyzed. The developed 5 session program
was progressed for 5 weeks from July 2015, 1 session a week, the verification of effectiveness was done through
qualitative research for the five person small-group and the perceived personal changes were figured out
through interviews after the end of each session and program. The reason the name of this program is ‘the
wings of mother’s is because mothers must be wings for children and for the three possible mothers must have
strength and the significance is in the hope that the program content will help the strong wings of mothers.
Upon the interview results to understand the needs on this program, it was shown that unmarried mothers
wanted to develop the relationship and the communication skills such as relationship building with others,
communication with communities and so on. To live the independent and autonomous life, nurturing unmarried
mothers wanted to build the relationship with surrounding environment first, therefore, the programs was
developed with building relationships with families and communities based on this. Ecological viewpoints were
used as the theoretical basis of this program. In the result of the analysis of changes by session of the program
participants, it became a chance for them to clearly figure out themselves and through honest communication
with single mothers with children in similar conditions, the created a sense of togetherness and stated that the
gained confidence. Also for them it became a chance to realize that they are not problematic people but
independent women and a chance to seriously think about what kind of parent they must be for their children
and was found they had created motivation to pioneer life as an independent single mother with children.
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