In this paper, I investigated housewives' stress and coping strategy and tried to find the
kinds of changes in their stress level and in coping strategy through Poetry Therapy.
Especially, it attempted to understand housewives' stress and copying strategy and verify
the effect of this program as a device of helping amicable adoption for the various
stress which they experience. In this study there're two groups. The members of the
group were selected randomly from one church in Busan. One is an experimental group
consisting of 8 housewives and the other is a control group consisting of the same
number of the members. Before and after the implementation of the program the
housewaves' everyday life stress and coping style were observed in order to verify the
effect of Poetry Therapy. I confirmed the difference between the changes of the
experimental group and those of the control group. For statistical analysis I used SPSS
computer program called t-test to examine the effects.To sum up, the following is the
conclusions of this study. First, Poetry Therapy has a positive effect on relieving
psychological stress of housewives.Second, Poetry Therapy can improve the overall
coping strategies for the housewives' stress. Third, it is efficient in the passive coping
strategy. In the conclusion, accurate and various measurements as well as evaluation of
Poetry Therapy effects should be accomplished to make it the effective treatment
strategy for a variety of subjects. Furthermore, the development of the program is
demanded considering characteristics of the Poetry Therapy media, because the subjects
might experience the Poetry Therapy in different ways according to the characteristics of
the media. Thus, I expect that the development of the Poetry Therapy program which
considers the characteristics of the subjects and the media could make a more efficient
Poetry Therapy possible.