The aim of this study is to explore main factors which form hospitalism by means of “happinesssensibility inquiry”.
1. Results from the use of “happiness-sensibility inquiry” are as follows:-
a. The source of hapiness-sensibility of children in normal home is their parents' love.
b. The institutional children are apt to get happiness from love of their staffs.
c. In order to adapt themselves to the hardship of life, the institutional children are obliged to cut down the level of hope for happy living.
d. In the institution children who have their parents do not cut down the level of living with hope toward happiness-sensibility. Their happiness- sensibility reflects the condition of their family.
2. Characteristics of institution in comparison with normal home can be stated as follows:
a Shortage of parents' love
b. Complicated human relation such as the children's relation to their parents and to their staffs' as well as staffs' relation to rheir families and to the institutional children
c. Continuation of unusual tension in personal relation
d. Institutional children's isolation from social life
e. Restriction and sacrifice of individual life by laying stress, on efficiency and rationality in a mass livelihood
f. Simplification of living custum; formalized and mechanized human relation which is brought by the principle of equality both
g. Lack of independence in the institutional children, caused from relying on their economical life and difficulty in their self-development due to their common ownership
h. Staffs' mental and physical overwork and insufficient care due to shortage of the staffs, and intermixture of grown-up and young children and those who are handicapped mentally, phsically, or socially.
Further question will be raised in following-up of the process of how this hospitalism grows up by these special characteristics of institution.
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