2021 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 129-145
“The Project for Strengthening Peace through the Improvement of Public Services in Three Darfur States (SMAP-II),”initiated by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), conducted vocational training, and a self-esteem survey targeting the training participants was implemented from 2017 to 2018. This study analyzes the survey data and reveals that their self-esteem scores are similar with the ones of another areas of Sudan and other African nations. Since self-esteem evaluates internal psychosocial aspect, and when external factors such as war, conflict, and social and economic situation are not changing for a long time, their influence on self-esteem may decline.
Regarding the vocational training's influence on self-esteem, compared with the self-esteem scores before the vocational training among 246 participants, 165 participants'scores increased (67.1%), 22 participants'ones were same (8.9%), and 59 decreased (24.0%). It was clarified that the participants with the increased scores occupies a large number and the statistical analysis of the scores also rose significantly. The correlation between the self-esteem score and the satisfaction of vocational training and the teaching methods to increase the self-esteem was also analyzed. As a result, although strong correlation could not be confirmed, weak correlation was confirmed significantly. It was suggested that the satisfaction of the training and the teaching methods has an influence on trainee's self-esteem. In order to investigate the self-esteem changes in terms of behavior, 40 good cases were collected from vocational training lecturers. Improvements in the participants'self-esteem and psychological aspects but also changes in the training lecture's awareness of training were reported. As mentioned above, for the participants and the lecturers, the good influence in both psychological aspects and behavior was confirmed by carrying out the vocational training which considered self-esteem.
