Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to develop a psycho-educational program aimed at improving individuals' self-understanding levels and experimentally test the impact of the developed program on university students. The study used experimental patterns with experimental-control group, pre-test, final-test and monitoring measurement; 13 students in the experimental group were applied 8 sessions of "conscious self-understanding program" and 15 students in the control group were not applied any experimental process. As a data collection tool, the "self-understanding scale" and personal information forms have been used. The hypotheses were tested using visual statistics, the Wilcoxon sequential signs test and the Mann Whitney U test. Before the experimental process, there was no significant difference between the self-understanding points of the experimental and control groups; after the experimental process, the self-understanding points of the participants in the experimental group were significantly higher than the participants in the control group. In the monitoring measurement applied a month after the experimental process, there was no significant difference between the final test points of the experimental group and the monitoring test points. According to these findings, it can be said that the Conscious Self-Comprehension Program is effective in increasing the level of self-comprehension of individuals.