The Effect of Online Self-Esteem and Awareness Training Program on University Students

Abstract

This research was conducted to examine the effect of online, self-esteem and awareness training program on college students. Research, was conducted on 71 subjects from a private university in Istanbul in 2013-2014 academic year. the study group consisted of 16 students that have been selected, among these subjects and eight students have been taken to the experimental group, eight students have been taken to the control group. Students' self-esteem levels have been evaluated using Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale which was developed by Rosenberg (1965) and was adapted to Turkish by Cuhadaroglu (1986). Control group pre-test post-test model was used as research design. After the pre-test measurements, an online training program consisting of nine sessions has been implemented individuals in the experimental group. During this period, no operation has been conducted with individuals in the control group. One week after the end of sessions the post-test measurements were taken. SPSS 20.0 has been utilized in the statistical analysis of the study data and was tested with the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test. The results obtained from this study have shown that online self-esteem and awareness training program is effective to increase university students' self-esteem levels...

Comparison of Two Approaches to Enhance Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance in Chinese College Students: Psychoeducational Lecture vs. Group Intervention

“…The psychoeducational approaches were effective in increasing self-esteem no matter whether it was lecture-based or activity-based. This finding was consistent with previous studies, which obtained significant enhancement of self-esteem by means of psychoeducational lectures ( Cartwright and Hooper, 2017 ), art therapy ( Yücesan and Şendurur, 2018 ), or online training ( Sungur, 2015 ). In addition, the present study found that the level of self-evaluation dimension of SAQ was also improved regardless of psychoeducational approaches.…”

“…Consistent with an online self-esteem and awareness training study ( Sungur, 2015 ), self-focused group intervention in the present study improved self-esteem and self-evaluation of college students. The intervention highlighted the awareness of self-knowledge, self-feeling, and self-regulation.…”

“…Each identity or self-knowledge had a particular feeling attached to it, while an individual’s behavior was determined by efforts to confirm these fundamental self-feelings ( Markus and Nurius, 1986 ). Empirical evidence showed that gaining awareness for his/her self had a positive effect on college students’ self-esteem ( Sungur, 2015 ), emotion regulation and self-acceptance could promote each other ( Kivity et al, 2016 ). Accordingly, the current study adopted a self-focused group intervention involving aspects of self-knowledge, self-feeling, and self-regulation to enhance self-esteem and self-acceptance in college students.…”

“…The studies on college students found similar effects. College students improved self-esteem after the resistance exercise program ( Moore et al, 2011 ), an online self-esteem and awareness training program ( Sungur, 2015 ), and an esteem development program including practices based on music therapy, poetry therapy, and creative drama method ( Yücesan and Şendurur, 2018 ).…”

Student Teachers' Attitude and Self-esteem towards Online Learning: Application of Rasch Measurement Model

“…There are some issues to an individual degree of self-esteem which is associated with successful adaptation to different learning styles, self-control, ability to accept criticism and positive emotions. Consequently, an individual with positive thoughts about himself toward learning online his self-esteem is high; if thoughts about oneself is negative then self-esteem will become low (Sungur, 2015).…”