A Study On The Structure And Group Intervention Of Self-Esteem On Emigrant-Workers' Children

As a key factor in ego-system, self-esteem has direct link to children's mental health. According to present surveys, self-esteem related problems such as inferiority, interpersonal sensitivity and social withdrawal, have been critical issues on emigrant-workers' children. So this study aims to assess the self-esteem of this group, and explore effective group intervention methods to improve it.In assessment study, a questionnaire of 45 items on self-esteem was designed, and applied to 425 subject children (8-15 years old) and 400 local children. The result showed an extremely significant difference (P <0.001) in overall esteem and eight elements of self-esteem (shape appearance, physical quality, academic performance, organizational capacity, peer relationships, talent, family relations, social status) between two groups, prominent in family relations (T =- 9.86) and social status (T =-8.30). Sex, parents education, parenting style and negative life events had significant correlation (P <0.05) to self-esteem of the subjects.Subsequently, a projective material was used on 54 subject children (10-13 years old) and 42 local children, to verify quantitative data in the qualitative way. It turned out that self-esteem of subject children was composed of eight elements, and emigrant-workers' children performed low and need improvement in six elements, which were family relations, social status, organizational capacity, academic performance, physical quality and appearance.In intervention study, an intervention program of 10 sessions (90 minutes respectively) is designed, and 30 subject children joined in it (15 in the experimental group, and 15 in the control group). The group intervention adhered to principles of learning from experience, selective challenge and contract value, and selected tools of self-esteem questionnaires, observational indicators, training feedback, teacher assessment, examination ranking, essays in former - later - tracking stages to assess the effectiveness. The result showed the experimental group, after intervention, improved much better in self-esteem than the control group, and they explicated more behaviors closely related to high self-esteem.Finally, recommendations of improving self-esteem in emigrant-workers' children, optimizing psychological education environment of farmer workers' children schools and improve the effectiveness of group intervention are made in the study.