Integrative Group Counseling Model for Enhancing Life Hope

Abstract

 PURPOSES: To develop and evaluate an integrative group counseling model for enhancing the life hope of undergraduate students. METHODS: This research was a mixed method research. The sample included two groups chosen by means of a stratified random sampling. The first group consisted of 248 first to fourth year students of Saint Louis College. The second group of the study was purposively selected from the first group consisting of 16 first-year students whose life hope scores were lower than the twenty-fifth percentile as an experimental group and a control group, eight students each. RESULTS: The total mean score and individual dimension scores of the life hope were moderate. The life hope of the students of the experimental group, after experiment and after follow-up, were significantly higher than before  experiment at a .01 level. The life hope scores of the students of the experimental group, after the experiment and after the follow-up, were significantly higher than those of the control group at a .01 level. A focus group report of the experimental group showed that the participants were satisfied with the integrative group counseling model. CONCLUSIONS:  An integrative group counseling model for enhancing the life hope of undergraduate students was successfully developed and satisfactorily evaluated. It could be applied to enhance life hope of students.