This research was to examine what effects of group art therapy to improve elementary school children who inclicated as under achiver's motivation for learning and sociality
The purposes of this research were as follows : First, to examine the effects...
This research was to examine what effects of group art therapy to improve elementary school children who inclicated as under achiver's motivation for learning and sociality
The purposes of this research were as follows : First, to examine the effects of group art therapy on motivation for learning of the school's under achievers. Second, to examine the effects of group art therapy on sociality improvement of school under achiever.
The subject of this research were 12 under achiving students the 4th grade in a 'G' Elementary school located in Masan. The subjects were divided into the an experiment group of 6 and the control group of 6.
Durration of the conducting period for the Group Art therapy program was 4 Weeks times per week for 4 weeks.
Absolute alternative factor is the group art therapy and subordinate alternative factor is the motivation for learning and sociality. I used coefficient of Cronbach to prove the reliability of this research and conducted tests of motivation for learning and sociality on the experiment group and control group.
In order to find the difference between the two groups, I carried out ANCOVA and used SPSS/For Windows 15.0 program for statistically significant verification.
The conclusion of this research is as follows : First, the group art therapy was meaningful in improving Elementary school Under achievers' motivation for learning, self-efficacy. In view of the whole motivation for learning, experiment group showed higher mean than the control group. Namely, the experiment group using the Group Art therapy showed a higher improvement than the control group in the subcategory of motivation for learning.
Second, the group art therapy brought an effective, positive, improvement of sociality for the school's under achievers because the sharing of the opinion in the course of the group art therapy helped the students to understand themselves and to know that their friends are important for them. There is the difference between the experiment group and the control group in the whole sociality. In addition the level of the experiment group was higher in the self-control and empathy.
By experiencing various materials and techniques in art therapy and participated problem solving together, talked about their products, they came to understand each other's situations and behaviors.
Though these activities, the group art therapy was the opportunity to make the children know the self-importance, to express themselves and to help them improve the social-skills.