The purpose of this study is to apply the color-meditation to the children with anxiety/depression, ADHD, and child aggression, and then to find how their status is changed. In order to achieve such objectives, the following questions are selected in ...
The purpose of this study is to apply the color-meditation to the children with anxiety/depression, ADHD, and child aggression, and then to find how their status is changed. In order to achieve such objectives, the following questions are selected in this study.
First, how the color-meditation effects on the children with anxiety/depression and changes such status?
Second, how the color-meditation effects on the children with ADHD and changes such status?
Third, how the color-meditation effects on the aggression of the children and changes such status?
In order to solve these questions, we selected the 460 participants from 12 classes at N Elementary School located in Jeju Island, by using the KISE selection scale on the children with emotion/activity disorder. K-CBCL(Korean type of activity evaluation scale for child/youth) was applied to those selected children. Then those children were divided into the sub-category such as anxiety/depression, ADHD, and aggression.
The color-meditation was performed on those experimental groups total 30 times(for 25 minutes, 5 times weekly) and then pre-test and post-test to the group three times each.
The main results acquired by this experiment is as follows;
First, The test score on the anxiety status of the entire children showed the greatly reduced average value in the feedback after the color-meditation than in the pre-test. In other words, we can see that the color-meditation is the effective program to reduce the anxiety status of the children with emotion/activity disorder in positive way.
Second, in the results of analysis on the written description of the impressions, it shows, in the color-meditation, the children have the pleasant, convenient and happy feeling instead of the reduced anxiety and unrest; they have more calmness and higher concentration instead of the pressure on the human relationship and studies.
From the above conclusion, we can see the color-meditation makes positive effects on the anxiety status mitigation of the children with emotion/activity disorder, reduces the tension, anxiety and fear, while increases the self-confidence and optimism.