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The purpose of this study is to observe mediation effect of the social support to the relationship between the meaning of life and psychological burnout for youth companions, to find out the impact of their meaning of life on psychological burnout, and to know if the social support performs as mediation variables on the meaning of life and psychological burnout. The subjects of this research was full-time and part-time youth companions who has been working for 17 youth counseling welfare centers that has been practicing youth companion programs. They were asked to answer to about 202 questionnaires and Descriptives, Correlation Analysis, and Multiple Regressions were conducted based on the gathered data. The findings are the following: First, after observing the relationship of the meaning of life, social support, and psychological burnout of youth companions, the higher the level of the meaning of life is, the lower that of psychological burnout. There is significant correlation between social support and psychological burnout. In other words, the higher the level of social support is, the lower that of psychological burnout. On the other hand, there is a positive correlation between the meaning of life and social support of youth companions. Second, social support partly mediates on the meaning of life and psychological burnout because the meaning of life has statistical significance while it has a decreased effect on psychological burnout when social support is controled as a mediation variable by assigned the meaning of life and psychological burnout as predictors and social support as subjective variables in the multiple regression to find out the mediation effect of social support on the relationship between the meaning of life and psychological burnout. It is necessary to prepare regular supplement education considering the meaning of individual life for youth companions, efficient education such as academic conferences, the expansion of social relationship in job activities, and the improvement of supportive attitudes in the organization so as to relieve psychological exhaustion experienced in youth companion activities. On the other hand, this study suggests for the follow-ups that qualitative research with a subjective study of the meaning of life and the relationship between a variety of age and successive working with respect to the actual experience and emotion should be needed.

한국어

본 연구는 집단독서치료활동이 유아의 다중지능 향상에 효과를 살펴보고자 실시하였다. 연구대상 은 G시에 소재하고 있는 Y와 H유아교육기관에 재원중인 만 5세 유아 40명을 실험집단과 통제집단 으로 나누어 실시하였으며 집단독서치료활동의 각 회기는 주 1회 12주 동안 실험집단에게 실시되었 다. 본 연구에서 사용한 검사 도구는 Gardner(1983)의 다중지능을 측정하기 위해 유아 간편 다 중지능 척도 구성은 이채호, 최인수(2011)가 개발한(Multiple Intelligence Scales for Young Korean Children; MIS-YKC)의 문항 49문항을 사용하였다. 다중지능을 측정하기위 해 타당화한 척도를 사용하였다. 검사 도구는 집단독서치료활동 실시 전과 후 대상유아 교사평정 척도로 의뢰하였다. 자료처리는 SPSS 18.0 프로그램을 이용하여 실험집단과 통제집단의 비교를 위해 t-검증으로 분석 하였으며, 연구결과를 요약하면 첫째, 집단독서치료 활동을 실시한 실험집단에서 다중지능의 하위영 역인 ‘신체 운동적 지능’, ‘논리 수학적 지능’, ‘공간적 지능’, ‘언어적 지능’, ‘대인관계 지능’, ‘개인이해 지능’의 영역에서는 실험집단과 통제집단 간에 유의한 차이를 보였으며, 긍정적인 효과를 나타냈다. 그러나 ‘음악적 지능’영역에서는 두 집단 간에 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 결론적으로, 유아의 다중지능 향상을 나타낸 본 연구의 결과는 집단독서치료 활동의 중요성을 입 증하였으며, 본 연구 결과를 통해 유아교육기관에서 집단독서치료활동을 실시한다면 다중지능 향상 에 긍정적인 효과가 있다는 결론을 얻을 수 있었다.