The Effect of Emotional Intelligence Through Rural Experience

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between children's rural activity and emotional intelligence. The subjects were sixty five elementary school students 5th grade in the city of seoul. 65 students were divided into an experimental group and a comparison group. The experimental group had 9 sessions with rural experience. Students were pre- and post-tested using EI(Emotional Intelligence) revised EI Test for Korea Students(Moon, 1996), The date were analyzed by T-test, The results of this study were summarized as follows: The score of EI was higher in the experimental group than in the comparison group. Therefore, rural experience was effective for the improvement of elementary student's emotional ability. This result would give significant information to educational farm and rural tourism village around the country and the school.

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