Bibliotherapy Approach of Affective Education for College Students Author:林烘煜 Hung - Yu Lin, 唐淑華 Shu-Hua Tang
Research Article
The purpose of this study was to implement an affective education program at the college level to improve students’ psychological adjustment. Traditionally, Taiwan’s college education focused on cognitive part of knowledge taking. Therefore, college students generally do not know how to deal with their personal problems and interpersonal relationships. However, the present study, emphasizing on the psychological well-beings, adopted Deci and Ryan’s (1985, 2002) self-determintion theory and the bibliotherapy approach to design the curriculum. A series of classes using novel-readings and in-class discussions were designed. Through the quasi-experimental design, after a semester’s course administration, students in the experimental group achieved significantly higher scores in good ways to deal with personal problem, self-esteem, and autonomy subscales compared to the controlled group. Suggestions concerning the ways to design a curriculum for affective education in college were presented in the paper.