| Self-esteem is the individual’s self-evaluation of their overall, showing a person’s own positioning. Esteem as a reflection of the overall mental health of an individual personality traits, has close ties with a number of psychological characteristics, playing an important role of human psychological development. With lifelong human development, self-esteem is constantly changing. Vocational College students are generally low level of self-esteem compared to other levels of colleges and universities, as they are in early adulthood, gradually separated from their parents, at the same time as a university student status.To understand the contemporary situation of vocational college students’ self-esteem and its factors nowadays, which enhance the exploration of ways to improve the self-esteem to provide constructive ideas, in this study, used Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale(SES) to do a survey on vocational students overall level of self-esteem, and compared among different groups in item; compared with other levels of colleges and universities; use psychodrama to conduct group intervention of vocational college students’ self-esteem to explore the ways of self-esteem improving in this groups. In this study, a randomly selected a vocational college of 460 students for the object survey of 444 valid questionnaires for descriptive statistics, T test, variance analysis and multiple regression; compared with data of 196 valid questionnaires from a total of 200 undergraduates in baccalaureate degree among two colleges; from the voluntary recruitment of 40 students of vacational students which were been questionnaired, set a experimental group and a control group, and the experimental group was in psychodrama intervention for a period of eight times over eight weeks, and 2.5 hours each time; used psychodrama techniques to intervene member’ self-esteem leading to the intervention ideas developd by combination with the concept of self-esteem and Self-Esteem Scale(SES) items, while before, during and after the intervention of members of the self-esteem levels were tested. The following conclusions:(1) Vocational college students’ overall level of self-esteem is low, and there are extremely significant differences in gender and grade campared with undergraduates in baccalaureate degree.(2) There are significant differences in gender, place of residence; significant difference in parents’ occupation, and according to the covariance analysis of father’s occupation, mother’s occupation, place of residence showed that after running data one by one in the exclusion of the other two factors’ impact, vocational college students self-esteem on father’s occupation has significant difference while another factors are not; no significant differences in grade, whether only child, parents’ education, whether or not parents divorced, whether or not the nuclear family.(3) Psychodrama help enhance the self-esteem level of vocational college students: After eight-week continuous, closed psychodrama group activities, excluding the impact of natural changes and history interference and other factors, the level of self-esteem among group members were extremely significantly difference compared with eight weeks before.(4) Psychodrama help enhance the self-esteem level of low self-esteem and medium self-esteem of vocational students, but no significant improving can be found among students of low selfesteem.(5) Performing phase is valid time period of self-esteem improving in the process of psychodrama, but there was no raise of self-esteem in psychodrama’s warm-up phase. |
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