The purpose of this study is to testify the effect of Rosenberg\'s Nonviolent Communication Training Program on rejected children\'s self-esteem and their peer relationships. The research hypotheses set to achieve this goal were as follows. First, Rosenberg\'s nonviolent communication training might improve self-esteem of rejected children. Second, Rosenberg\'s nonviolent communication training might improve peer relationships of rejected children. To test these hypotheses, 18 rejected children were selected out of 64 4th-grade students in G Elementary School in Busan. And they were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the control group. The students in the experimental group took part in the 10-session Rosenberg\'s Nonviolent Communication Training Program based on the nonviolent communication developed by Rosenberg(2003) while the students in the control group did not get any treatment. The Self-esteem Scale(Coopersmith, 1967) translated by B. G. Choi and G. Y. Jeon\'s(1993) and the Peer Relationship Scale revised from O. S. Hong\'s(1984) were given to the students in both groups. The pretest was given before the program and the posttest after the program. The retention test was given 7 weeks later after the program. The data was treated
with SPSS/WIN 10.0 program, in which standard deviation and mean of the pretest, posttest and retention test of each group were got and t-test and ANCOVA were used for the statistical analysis. The results of this study were as follows.
First, the self-esteem of the students in the experimental group was significantly improved compared with that of the control group students. Second, the peer relationship of the students in the experimental group was significantly improved compared with that of the control group students. Third, the effects of this program lasted for 7 weeks. Therefore, it is suggested that Rosenberg\'s Nonviolent Communication Training Program had positive effect on rejected children\'s self-esteem and their peer relationships.
Key Words : Rosenberg\'s nonviolent communication program, Rejected children\'s, Self-estreem, Peer Relationships