The Effects of Underlying Need Identification on Negative Affect and Experiential Acceptance in Peer Conflict Among Korean Chinese Adolescents : Focusing on left-behind children

Key Points

• The aim is to examine the counseling effects of need identification on negative emotions and experiential acceptance in Korean Chinese adolescents.
• Randomly assigned participants to experimental and control groups.
• Participants recalled experiences of conflict with peers.
• The experimental group received interventions on emotion recognition, interpretation, and need identification.
• The control group focused on describing emotions and research participation procedures.
• Data from 52 Korean Chinese adolescents were analyzed.
• Negative affect significantly decreased in the experimental group compared to the control group.
• Experiential acceptance was significantly higher in the experimental group than in the control group.