The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of life-respect consciousness on suicidal risk, aggression and meaning in life and to explore the effect of Life-respect Literatherapy Program on them. The subjects were some middle schools students in Daegu. The sheets of questionnaires were handed out to 630 students in these schools, and 464 sheets among them were analysed. And 16 students(who were given high scores of aggression scale suicidal risk scale) participated in this study to examine the influence of literatherapy program based on life-respect, 8 students(randomly) among whom took part in Life-respect Literatherapy Program and the other 8 students didn’t participate in any program during the same period.
The influence of life-respect consciousness on each variable was found through this research. If a student has higher life-respect consciousness, he or she will have higher level of meaning in life and have lower level of suicidal risk and aggression. There were a positive correlation between life-respect consciousness and meaning in life, a negative correlation between life-respect consciousness and suicidal risk, and also a negative correlation life-respect consciousness and aggression. In secondary analysis, simple regression analysis analyzed each variable. The influence of life-respect consciousness was proved. Therefore, it is possible to predict levels of suicidal risk, aggression and meaning in life by the level of life-respect consciousness. The influence of life-respect literatherapy program was also proved. That is, literatherapy program based on life-respect can decrease suicidal risk, aggression, and increase life-respect consciousness and meaning in life.
These findings indicate Life-respect Literatherapy Program has effects on control levels of life-respect consciousness, suicidal risk, aggression and meaning in life. Therefore, Life-respect Literatherapy Program will be helpful in decreasing suicidal risk, aggression, and increasing life-respect consciousness, meaning in life, I think it’s better to consider life-respect consciousness variable in counseling, education and literatherapy program for middle school students who have gone through a series of problems in suicidal risk and aggression.