Abstract
Abstract May 12th 2008, 8-grade earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, causing a great loss. The present study aims to improve the resilience of the middle school students in Stricken Areas 3 years after the earthquake and to enhance their resistance to adversity, fulfill their potentials and help them achieve post-trauma growth by developing a Group Music Counseling.
22 students with low resilience were chosen according to the result of the CD-RISC. After matching the genders, the students were assigned randomly into the control group and the intervention group, both of which contain 11 students (5 males and 6 females). Group music counseling was used to improve the resilience of the junior students in the stricken area. Social Support, Emotional Management, Coping Style and Goal Orientation are the 4 parts of the counseling program, and there are 10 topics from these 4 parts. Main form of group music counseling was chorus and music discussion. The intervention lasted 7 weeks.
In order to test the effect of Group Music Counseling, CD-RISC, SAS, SDS, Scale of Social Support for Teens, Scale of Coping Style Scale for Middle School Students and SES and self-designed interview outline were used in pre-, post-test and follow-up survey. After the intervention, the post-test of intervention group in Resilience, Social Support, Problem-solving, Looking for social support, rationalization and Self-esteem are significantly higher than the post-test of control group. Two months after the intervention, the follow-up scores of the intervention group compared with the post-test had a slight change which was the effect of intervention had a slight drop. The follow-up scores of the intervention group compare with the pre-test scores, are also significantly higher than pre-test in Resilience, Social Support, Problem-solving, Looking for social support , rationalization and Self-esteem.
Group Music Counseling can effectively improve various aspects of middle school students in stricken area, including resilience, Social Support, positive coping styles (Problem-solving, Looking for social support and rationalization) and Self-esteem. By contrast, they express lower anxiety and depression mood and less negative coping styles (Escape).The follow up survey reveals that Group Music Counseling has sustained influence on resilience.
Key words
Earthquake Stricken Area /
Resilience /
Group Music Counseling
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Study of Improving Resilience for the Earthquake Stricken Area Junior Middle School Students by Group Music Counseling[J]. Journal of Psychological Science. 2013, 36(6): 1480-1485
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