This study aims to examine the effects of Korean Traditional music
therapy on visually-impaired students’ ego-resilience. The subjects are the
students attending 00 School for the Blind located in C City, and five
teenagers thought to have low ego-resilience were recommended by their
school teacher. Korean Traditional music therapy in this study refers to the
folk music of Korean traditional music and activity centering around rhythm,
traditional songs and plays, or folk songs. Korean Traditional music therapy
was conducted total 12 sessions to the visually-impaired students, twice a
week, for 50 minutes. Measuring ego-resilience was performed before and
after the sessions of Korean Traditional music therapy, and the prior and
post changes of average scores were analyzed by each of the subfactors in
general. The result of this study is as shown below. First Korean Traditional
music therapy changed the visually-impaired students’ ego-resilience significantly.
Second, after the Korean Traditional music therapy, the subfactors of
visually-impaired students’ ego-resilience, the average scores of interpersonal
relationship, vitality, emotional control, curiosity, or positivity increased all.
And vitality and positivity showed significant increase.